A Polish Mom Didn't Let Her Own Death Stop Her from Giving Her Baby Life

Natalia Dueholm : Apr 27, 2016
LifeSiteNews.com

Doctors delivered the baby by C-section when they thought he could no longer safely remain in his mother's womb.

(Wrocław, Poland)—Preserving the mother's life is so often used to justify abortion, but one Polish woman wouldn't even let apparent death stop her from giving life to her child. (File Photo via Wikipedia)

The woman had an incurable brain tumor and ended up in the University Clinical Hospital in Wrocław. According to media reports, she was 41 years old, 17 weeks pregnant and had known about her disease for ten years. She had decided not to treat it for fear of the complications. Her brain cancer grew, cutting the blood supply to the brain. The doctors diagnosed her as brain dead, but her heart was beating. Along with her husband, they decided to maintain her vital functions to save the unborn baby.
 
While at that time, the boy was given no chance to survive outside the womb, he is now three-months old, out of the hospital, and safe in his father's care.
 
"It was a fight for the baby's life," Andrzej Kűbler, the head of the anesthesiology unit at the University Clinic Hospital, said in an interview with RMF FM radio station. (Photo: Dr Andrzej Kűbler/via LifeSiteNews.com)
 
And this victorious battle lasted 55 days before the baby's birth, and three months after. Doctors delivered the baby by C-section when they thought he could no longer safely remain in his mother's womb.
 
Krzysztof Kunert of wpolityce.pl writes that the medical personnel emphasized the father's role and support in this ordeal. He moved close to the hospital, keeping watch and looking after his family. He also read books to his unborn baby.
 
The baby was born on January 9, 2016, and had to...
 
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