When Margaret Boemer went to her 16 week ultrasound, she was never expecting these results. Her baby girl had a tumor on her spine. The doctors advised Margaret to terminate the pregnancy. She had already lost one of her twins earlier in this pregnancy, so she wasn't about to lose another baby. At 23 weeks, Margaret went into surgery. The tumor was starting to take over LynLee, it was shutting her heart down and sending her into cardiac failure.
The surgery consisted of cutting the uterus, taking LynLee out, removing the tumor, putting LynLee back into the uterus, and then sewing the uterus shut again. Margaret carried LynLee for 12 more weeks (on bed rest). LynLee was born at 36 weeks, perfectly healthy. She weighed 5 pounds and 5 ounces. At 8 days old, she went back in for surgery so the doctors could get the remains of the tumor that they couldn't get to earlier.
LynLee is now 7 and loves hanging out with her sisters and singing to Taylor Swift. Margaret said it was worth every pain.
1. If you're doctor advised you to terminate your pregnancy, what would you do?
2. How would you deal with this emotional and physical roller coaster if you were Margaret?
Opinion: I think this would be a very hard decision to make. If I have already lost 1 child in this pregnancy, I don't think I would be able to end this pregnancy. I would do whatever it took to have my baby. I am sure Margaret went through lots of pain and tears, but she also brought a life into this world. It's a miracle, and she's the reason for it. It would be a very rewarding feeling.
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It would be hard for a doctor to tell me to term my pregnancy because I love kids. It would hurt because you are pretty much killing a person. I would turn to my family and my friends for their support.
I would be extremely sad if a doctor told me to terminate my pregnancy. I definitely wouldn't terminate the pregnancy because all children deserve to have a life no matter what. I think I would lean on my family for support in this situation because I would not want to deal with it alone. This must have been a really hard time for her and it would be hard to get through.
Yes, I agree. I would not want to hear the words from the doctor to tell me to terminate my pregnancy. It would be even harder because you want to listen to the doctor, but then you don't want to lose your baby.
I''m not sure what I would do. I would probably follow their advise because I could always have more children and considering they were still inside the womb when the surgery was done there would have been a high chance of death anyways. I'm not sure how I would deal. All I could hope for was that I had my family and friends to support me.
I don't know what I would do. It's the hardest decision some women will ever have to make for themselves. It would definitely be a struggle, but I would just try to surround myself with family and friends. I think it's amazing how far medical technology has come that we are able to do things like taking a baby out of a uterus to have surgery and putting them back in.
Yes, I am sure she relied on her family and friends to help her through these tough times. It would be so much pressure for her to make a decision on her own.
I would try to find every possible solution to save the baby and not harm the mother. I think that this baby was given to someone for a reason and they should do everything in their power to keep that baby and the mother healthy. It would be very difficult for a doctor to tell a person that they must terminate their pregnancy but the will to keep the baby alive is incredible.
No, sometimes I think yeah especially like stories like this where you make think that would be he easiest thing to do, but I do not think I could ever terminate a pregnancy. I would do everything I could to try and keep the baby alive anyway that was possible and try to see all the options. If I had to go through something like this, I would want to just have everyone like close to me around to help with all the stress and pain and heartbreak and happiness.
Yes, I agree. I don't think that I would have the will power and the guts to kill a baby living inside of me. Especially when there were other options. Why not risk it by trying to save the baby? Rather than giving it no chance at all and killing it, innocently?
Honestly it would be heartbreaking, but clearly they were still able to do something. So maybe look at other options first and if there wasn't any then yes I would. I would want as many people by my side as possible.. This is heartbreaking.
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