When Expectant Parents Hear Bad News
Via Catholic Exchange:
By Elias Crim
Like many other laypeople who found a new ministry, Monica Rafie first had to undergo a personal trial by fire. On her website, BeNotAfraid.net, she recounts what happened at the clinic in suburban Chicago in June 2001, when her second child, Celine, was 22 weeks along.
The OB left us in the exam room for a very long time. I don't know whether she had ever delivered bad news before. I wonder what must have raced through her mind when she looked over the ultrasound. Eventually she did return to the little room where I sat with legs dangled over the examination table and my husband bobbed our squirmy ten-month old son on his knees...We were told that our baby had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a condition incompatible with life. [More]
This is an inspiring piece which describes the BeNot Afraid Website. "Our site is not actually not about abortion, it's about what happens when you choose life. And it's not just for faithful Catholics, although there are many great Catholic medical ethics resources which we selectively prefer", nor is it a grief site" (it is full of incredible stories of hope and joy, in fact). It's really for anyone open to — or even just willing to be open to — the idea that carrying the baby and facing whatever comes after with trust and gratitude to God is really the right way to go."
By Elias Crim
Like many other laypeople who found a new ministry, Monica Rafie first had to undergo a personal trial by fire. On her website, BeNotAfraid.net, she recounts what happened at the clinic in suburban Chicago in June 2001, when her second child, Celine, was 22 weeks along.
The OB left us in the exam room for a very long time. I don't know whether she had ever delivered bad news before. I wonder what must have raced through her mind when she looked over the ultrasound. Eventually she did return to the little room where I sat with legs dangled over the examination table and my husband bobbed our squirmy ten-month old son on his knees...We were told that our baby had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a condition incompatible with life. [More]
This is an inspiring piece which describes the BeNot Afraid Website. "Our site is not actually not about abortion, it's about what happens when you choose life. And it's not just for faithful Catholics, although there are many great Catholic medical ethics resources which we selectively prefer", nor is it a grief site" (it is full of incredible stories of hope and joy, in fact). It's really for anyone open to — or even just willing to be open to — the idea that carrying the baby and facing whatever comes after with trust and gratitude to God is really the right way to go."
Isn't Monica a dynamo? I'm one of her biggest fans. I just love her website, it's SO needed today when parents are under such pressure to abort less than perfect babies.
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