Imagine

So this is an old editorial, but I just wandered across it today.

Go ahead and read it. Then come back.

And read this. And then look at this. It's mostly pictures, so it won't take long.

Just to give you an idea.

When I was pregnant with Elijah, in the third trimester I had an ultrasound because he wasn't growing, and they diagnosed a single umbilical artery. When I got home and googled that phrase, I found scary statistics like 13 to 56 percent of babies with an SUA have an anomaly of some kind. I also found discussion threads from parents whose babies also had an SUA, who were considering abortion. Because their babies might be--I'm not sure what to say--less than physically perfect?

Elijah, May, 2011

We drew the short straw, so to speak. Elijah turned out to be one of the babies with an anomaly. 

I can't imagine choosing--I can't imagine anyone choosing--to make his life go away.