Alexia Pearce adores her 'gorgeous' three-year-old son,yet she is aware that his life – a life blighted by cerebral palsy and chronic lung disease is unlikely to final long into his teens. In this moving account, she asks: are we always right to save premature babies?Alexia Pearce looks at her three-year-old son Nathan every day and feels the same rush of guilt. Guilt that she chose to let him live when he was born too early, and just 23 weeks into her pregnancy. "whether I'd known then what I know now approximately what extremely premature babies bear to go though,I would not bear chosen that for my limited boy."I would bear wanted them to give him to me and for him to pass away in my arms. I find the whole issue of what he has been put through, what he continues to be put through, and very difficult. I feel very guilty that I took that decision,postponing the inevitable."Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com