by JD | Dec 5, 2021 | D&E, Hydrocephalus, Stories
By Yin “Your baby’s head is big. I don’t want to alarm you, but just be prepared.” These words from my sonographer changed my life forever. A few hours before the sonogram, l was anxious. I kept visualizing walking out of my 20 week anatomy scan with reports of a...
by JD | Jul 28, 2021 | Congenital Heart Defects, D&E, Hypoplastic Right Heart Syndrome, Stories, Tricuspid Atresia
Editor’s Note By special request of the author, this story is published exactly as it was submitted to us. We were crushed, devastated, horrified. The rug had been swept outfrom under us. In amatter of a few days, we had gone from excited to meet our little...
by JD | Jul 28, 2021 | Congenital Heart Defects, Cystic Hygroma, D&E, Fetal Hydrops, Stories, Turner Syndrome
The doctor came in with a very sympathetic demeanor and started saying words like cystic hygroma and hydrops and fatal and miscarry and chromosomal issues. We completely lost it. “What do you mean?” I wanted to scream. I just saw a normal happy little moving baby on...
by JD | Oct 10, 2019 | D&E, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
“Your baby has Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. The left side of the heart did not develop. This condition does not have a cure.” A Prenatal Diagnosis of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome I have always been a planner. Before making any decision, I evaluate the...
by Amy Collier | Apr 28, 2019 | D&E, Stories, Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
I called the abortion clinic with a program for genetic abnormalities. Through sobbing, I managed to make an appointment for the following week to terminate the pregnancy. by Nicole K. On a foggy winter morning, I pick up the baby’s ashes at the post office. It’s just...
by Amy Collier | Dec 6, 2018 | Anencephaly, D&E, Diagnoses, Neural Tube Defects, Stories
I was little more than life support for her and within minutes or possibly hours from birth, she would die, without any sense of me or anything around her. By Sara This is my story of ending a wanted pregnancy. I’m putting in lots of details because it’s...
