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?
I had cancer while I was pregnantAlexia 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, or just 23 weeks into her pregnancy. "whether I'd known then what I know now about what extremely premature babies believe to go though,I would not believe chosen that for my exiguous boy."I would believe 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 set aside through, what he continues to be set aside through, and very difficult. I feel very guilty that I took that decision,postponing the inevitable."Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com