Pregnant mother who held off cancer treatment rather than abort baby celebrates daughter’s birth
I simply found this uplifting….do remember this family in your prayers.
A mother who refused to abort her unborn baby after discovering she had leukaemia, has stunned doctors by giving birth to a healthy baby girl.
Victoria Webster, 33, was diagnosed with cancer during a routine blood test when she was 21 weeks pregnant.
Medics pleaded with her to have a late termination so she could start on a course of life-saving chemotherapy – but warned the medication would kill her unborn daughter.
The mother-of-two decided to keep her baby, and delay her treatment – and incredibly, she is now on the road to recovery after giving birth to a healthy baby girl.
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February 17th, 2011 at 8:27 pm
Very moving and how wonderful to see such a happy outcome for all involved.
What a horrific and agonising decision for any pregnant woman and her husband to have to make. In a case like this there is no “easy” decision, nor should any woman be condemned who decided differently in a situation like this where her life was threatened.