DEVASTATING NEWS

Al

All through out my pregnancy oh, I have had complications that have sent me to the hospital at least 6 times. They found something abnormal on one of my ultrasound scans. so they sent me to a clinic that has a maternal fetal medicine specialty. Where I found out that my child has anencephaly. He will not make it past a week if I deliver. This has been devastating news to my family and my fiance's as we figure out whether to terminate this child of ours or to carry to term and watch him die in our arms. For those that do not know what anencephaly is, it's basically part of the skull or brain missing from the baby's head and will most likely be born without a completed skull and/or without his brain. In my case my child's skull head stop developing and a membrane sac is keeping his brain in but will slowly deteriorate throughout the pregnancy. It isn't genetic from what I've heard, it isn't something that I've done, but it still hurts more terribly than anything that I have ever experienced. I had a miscarriage before I had my daughter and I thought that was the worst thing I could have gone through. I was wrong. Losing a child this way or knowing you're going to lose child is one of the most unbearable feelings in the world. I would never wish this upon anyone I would never wish such pain hurt to be on a new one soul. Please please please if anyone has any advice as to try to cope and get through this please let me know.