Mum Shares Heartbreaking Late-Term Abortion Story And Why It Should Be An Option

A mum has shared her heartbreaking story of why she thinks late-term abortion should be an option.

Lindsey Paradiso was over the moon when she discovered she was pregnant with her first child. She was so excited that she made an emotional pregnancy announcement video with her husband, Matt.

In the video which already earned over 15.8 million views, she gave Matt a gift bag with a blanket inside, containing a positive pregnancy test, and they both cried tears of joy.

However, the moment was short-lived as they discovered on Lindsey’s 18-week scan that their baby had a mass on the neck. Then, they received the worst news — their doctor said their baby, they named Omara, would most likely die, and so it would be in their best interests to terminate the pregnancy.

However, the couple decided to wait until Omara was viable at 27 weeks to be delivered surgically – that way, the doctors could operate on the tumour, giving their baby her best shot at surviving.

Yet, after three weeks, the couple received an MRI containing the worst case scenario –  the tumour was a lymphangioma and was inoperable. These kinds of tumours consist of important tissues and tend to grow at a fast rate.

Lindsey explained this in her blog. She wrote:

“Omi’s was growing quite quickly and was endangering her lungs, eye and brain.

“We had to have her delivered early by an EXIT procedure, which is basically like a larger and riskier C-section, because her tumor was so massive that at 27 weeks she would be too big to deliver vaginally.

“I was willing to risk never having kids again with the EXIT procedure if it meant Omi could survive, but now that we knew she would probably die before viability, the thought of also being infertile was too much for us.”

Lindsey said that she and her husband decided to have a procedure where a lethal injection is administered to the baby and labour is induced afterwards. On the eve of the procedure, she described in her blog the fear she felt.

“I can’t describe the fear I have for tomorrow. Of course I am scared for the labor and the pain, but I am even more terrified to have to let her go. So tonight I will lay in bed and hold my pregnant belly. I will cherish every kick or movement I feel and I hope I will dream of her,” she wrote.

She endured a 40-hour labour that she described as painful and exhausting, but necessary if she wanted to hold her baby and say goodbye.

Lindsey then posted on Facebook about ‘ending a wanted pregnancy’ just when US President Donald Trump delivered his stance on abortion during the presidential debate in October last year.

Since then, the couple received negative comments from people on social media, which prompted Lindsey to update her viral post and deliver some home truths to people who are judgemental about so-called late-term abortion. She wrote:

“She had an inoperable tumor growing into her brain, lungs and heart. She would not have lived to birth.

“If we had waited past the window of a legal abortion and she died in my womb, I would have had to carry her body (while my body began breaking it down) before being scheduled for a D&C or EXIT procedure (due to the size her tumor would have been).”

“We opted to end the pregnancy early, relieve the suffering that she and our family were experiencing and deliver her through labor fully intact. Because of this decision we were able to hold her and say good-bye.”

The family held a small funeral service for their beloved baby, and buried her.

Source: Kidspot.com.au