Category: Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons

We have one living daughter and very much wanted to grow our family. When she had just turned a year old we somewhat surprisingly found out that we were pregnant again. Once we got over the initial shock, we were quickly excited to welcome the baby and found out at 20 weeks that it was…

In February of 2017, we were ever so thrilled to discover we had fallen pregnant after about 6 months of trying. ❤ We already had a beautiful 11 month old daughter and, although they were going to be close together, we were ready to complete our family (and hoping for a boy)- but of course…

Her name was Hope. I wish people would ask me about her. I wish people would talk about her. I miss her every single day. We found out our sweet baby girl had T21 when I was 11.5 weeks along. When the doctors call came I just knew something was wrong. In fact, I kind…

We passed our 12w scan. Yay! All was well. We told the world we were expecting our little surprise. Little did we know our lives would change forever in 8 weeks.   Our 20 week morphology scan showed our beautiful baby girl had an issue with her spine. We didn’t think much of this at…

This is a guest post submission about a baby that had the diagnosis of cloacal extrophy. His parents made the agonizing choice to terminate the pregnancy and spare their baby a life of pain. At our 12 week scan, the sonographer thought there may be something wrong, possibly an omphecele. We were scanned again at…

Today I would like to share with you the story of Laelynn Faith. Laelynn’s mom, Krista, found my group online, and she’s been an incredible source of inspiration for many. She’s spoken out about her daughter’s story in detail, and also chose to donate breast milk after Laelynn’s death. This is a long story, and…

I want to tell you my story of the last few months. I want you to know that I had a daughter. That I became a mother. I was 24 weeks pregnant and I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. She was not living. You see, we had learned a few weeks earlier that…

We walked into our 20 week ultrasound excited and nervous. We were only nervous because we did not want to know the gender this time. We already had a 3 year old healthy boy and wanted this to be our last pregnancy, so we decided we’d like to be surprised this time about the sex…

This is the story of Jack. His parents chose to terminate a very wanted pregnancy for medical reasons after finding out he had bilateral renal agenesis. They made the choice to spare him pain and take on the pain themselves. In January 2019, Josh & I sought assistance from a Reproductive Medicine to conceive. On…

Stacie Goddard: Peter’s Story I was trying for a baby for 4 years with my partner as I was told I couldn’t have kids. I finally fell pregnant and I couldn’t believe it. At 6 weeks I started to bleed so I went to the hospital and had a scan. They said it was a…