Posted on 03/12/2010 8:39:11 AM PST by BykrBayb
My husband was a ‘blue baby’ in 1976...I’m told he even has a death certificate! He wasn’t ever given a middle name, and I think that’s because his parents didn’t think he’d survive. He now has has five kids of his own. You just never know how things are going to work out.
No one can know what was going on in these parent’s hearts when they decided to end life support, so I don’t want to judge them; I can’t imagine being bombarded by experts insisting that my child would be better off dead, especially with the government paying the bills and calling the shots. Not to mention all those post-pregnancy hormones running through my system.
Whatever their inner thoughts, they’ll have to live with it now.
Your grandparents Got it.
Amen.
I heart RPTs. : )
Oh wagglebee THANK YOU.
High Five from us!
I gotta go, suction KV, start a new tube feeding, change his 02/mist tubing/bags ect ect
son he can get up in his WC for the day and join the rest of our town in our new book club read.
Peace be with you.
Wagglebee WAS giving you his personal opinion.
It is mine as well.
I am going to Pray for you today Grunthor.
Heartbreaking news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your excerpt raises the question of why the mother had a “difficult 40-hour delivery.” Why wouldn’t they do a caesarian after a certain amount of time, say 12 hours? The fetal monitor should have indicated there was some problem. This makes the whole story even more distressing.
I understand that.
Did the culture of death give them the option of caring for the bambino at home?
I am guessing no.
If they did have that option and the baby thrived even if severly disabled it would not fufill the goal of the death culture.
See the other stories here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/babyisaiah/index?tab=articles
It doesn’t seem like they were given any choice.
Probably their announcement yesterday came after they realized that they were never going to win.
I cant disagree with you.
I am not judging the parents.
I am suspect of the agenda of a/any hosp. in this day and age.
And I side with the teaching on such matters with the Catholic Church.
“What she has is not a job but a calling!”
Like the story of this thread shows, it can be a very heartbreaking job. Of course, far more of “her” babies make it than don’t. Many of these kids get a life where they might not have had one. Each is a miracle.
“I heart RPTs. : )”
You are so generous and kind. I’ll make sure to tell her. It will make her day.
I agree,...i will be praying for them
We love NICU nurses!
— from the mom of a 27 week micro-preemie (now 10 going on 30)
“from the mom of a 27 week micro-preemie (now 10 going on 30)”
Bless you and your baby.
He has.
My heart goes out to these young parents. It is no small decision to let go of a precious child once brain activity is gone.
It rained today.
Thought it was awesome this morning here in the PNW.
Sleeping on a wet wanted to be aired out twin size mattress.
The dry cough that has plagued my thorasic (sic fer sure) is gone though.
Wet bed no cough.
KV now has the cough.
Medemucil is his freind.
And RPT therapy.
The worst thing is we are living as per family tradition through Lenten season with no tv other than EWTN (that is All Catholic tv).
Opera (I dig jazz/he loves country twang).
Oh we are sufferring. LOL
Yet we have hope.
And he did make it to the Our City Reads which is a book from an Author from your neck of the woods and his childhood story of being raised in your neck of the woods.
OMG this is funny. It just started Hailing.
Peace be with you.
Did I just Hijack a thread?
Yes! We had to make that choice for our son. It was so difficult. This was 17 years ago, and I still have the same feelings I had then. We made the right choice, but for a few years after, I had nightmares about it.
I’m glad you made the right choice. How old is he now?
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