Perinatal Hospice Care

If your unborn child has only a limited time to live, please don't have him/her torn limb from limb, stabbed in the chest with poison, and without anesthesia, because it is standard practice to deny anesthesia even after 20 weeks, when it is certain that pain receptors are present and working perfectly. Here are some testimonies from parents who chose not to terminate their pregnancies:

'By giving my son the protection of my body to face the announced death, I was giving him life, all of his life, so that it would be recorded in our family, in all of our history, and in the hearts of each of us. It wasn’t a morbid walk but a formidable surge of love.—Isabelle'

My entire family wanted me to terminate (I still can’t bring myself to write “abort”). They thought it would be easier on me. In the end everyone was so glad that I decided to continue. We all fell in love with her.—Jamie

A perinatologist said things to us like “the outcome will be the same” even if we didn’t induce prematurely. Now that I’m stronger emotionally, I know that the outcome would not be the same. We would not have had all of the special time to share with Gianna during her life in my womb. We would not have been able to share some amazing, precious moments with our baby and our sons.—Jennifer

I really have peace that we carried her to term. I know in my heart that I have given my daughter all that I could and loved her every day of her life.—Annette

http://perinatalhospice.org/Parent_voices.html

Another very moving story to check out - by Hilary Ní Lorcháin.

http://www.independent.ie/life/family/mothers-babies/margaret-was-a-joy-for-her-two-short-days-29163784.html