In perfect health, the baby doctors said would be born deaf and blind ...and live only a few hours

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | Monday, February 25, 2008 | JO MACFARLANE

[Sopater]

A couple who were advised to abort their baby when doctors said he had a rare brain disorder have spoken of their joy after their "miracle son" was born in perfect health.

Little Brandon Kramer was diagnosed with rhomboencephalosynapsis – a condition so rare it affects fewer than one in a million people worldwide – while he was still in the womb.

Doctors warned his mother and father that Brandon would be born deaf and blind and would probably survive only for a couple of hours.

It is believed to be the first time in Britain that the condition has been diagnosed during pregnancy – and Becky Weatherall and her partner Kriss Kramer were offered a termination up to just weeks before the birth.

But the couple defied doctors' advice and their son was born healthy on October 1 last year.

Now Brandon is teething and attempting to talk, and Kriss, 24, from Pembroke Dock, South Wales, said: "The fact that he is here now, alive and kicking, truly is a miracle."

[Sopater]

Every baby is a miracle, indeed.

[swatbuznik]

Good for them!! God bless ‘em!

[redtetrahedron]

Ping!

[Billg64]

coming soon with mandated government healthcare “mandated pre-natal screening and disposal of un-born children that MAY be to costly”

[Hoodat]

"God is Awesome" ping.

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

Praise God for His mercy and love for us! Shows how small man’s understanding is and how great God is.

[6ppc]

"The fact that he is here now, alive and kicking, truly is a miracle."

Not really a miracle...it's pretty obvious the doctors screwed up the diagnosis.

[Christopher Lincoln]

Yes, but it’s no miracle for doctors to be wrong, especially under socialized medicine.

[CindyDawg]

All babies are miracles but the special miracle here is his mom and dad.

[MaryFromMichigan]

"Although every care and precaution is taken to ensure the most accurate results, ultrasound is not 100 per cent accurate."

Accurate enough though, to end a baby's life.

[Billg64]

That much of a “shadow of a doubt” with DNA evidence would prevent a murderer from being executed, but this was only a “fetus” (not a human)

[LADY J]

Such a beautiful little one!! God bless him & keep him safe from harm.

[Arrowhead1952]

Here is an FR thread how Hussein supports partial birth abortions.

Why Jesus would not vote for Barack Obama

[Sopater]

it’s no miracle for doctors to be wrong

This is very true.

[Red Badger]

It is believed to be the first time in Britain that the condition has been diagnosed during pregnancy –

And it was WRONG!.............

[Sopater]

coming soon with mandated government healthcare

A frightening thought that I hadn't even yet considered. Thanks for the wake-up call.

[montag813]

Has anyone noticed how whenever you see some nightmare thread about a death during childbirth (injected with Mr. Clean instead of epidural, epidural injected in arm instead of back, etc) or abortion-related nightmare, it is always in the UK, with the wonderful NHS?

[uptoolate]

Becky Weatherall and her partner Kriss Kramer

[Fox_Mulder77]

Thank God
What a beautiful baby

[squarebarb]

Yes. Maybe they will think about getting married now,
so their baby will grow up thinking ‘my dad loved my mother enough to marry her’.

Wouldn’t that be nice?