Mum To Be:
We were watching the very excellent Grey's Anatomy the other day, which has become a favourite show while we are waiting for a new series of Lost. An unusual storyline started up an interesting conversation between myself and Dad To Be. On the show a patient was expecting quintuplets and had come in for a fair bit of grief from various medical professionals during the pregnancy because she did not want to selectively reduce the foetuses and was instead carrying all 5 babies for as long as she could. On the show all the babies would then be born with various medical needs.
The argument was that selective reduction would give the remaining babies a much better chance getting nearer full term and developing normally. That all sounds sensible in principle but I am sure that faced with that reality however much the head would understand the medical necessity, the heart would feel differently. Dad To Be and I both agreed that we were not sure that we could make a choice that would end the lives of some of babies in favour of others. I guess it is one of those situations that you can talk about and wonder about from the outside but cannot possibly comprehend until you are in it. My heart goes out to anyone who finds themselves in this situation out there in the real world.
We were watching the very excellent Grey's Anatomy the other day, which has become a favourite show while we are waiting for a new series of Lost. An unusual storyline started up an interesting conversation between myself and Dad To Be. On the show a patient was expecting quintuplets and had come in for a fair bit of grief from various medical professionals during the pregnancy because she did not want to selectively reduce the foetuses and was instead carrying all 5 babies for as long as she could. On the show all the babies would then be born with various medical needs.
The argument was that selective reduction would give the remaining babies a much better chance getting nearer full term and developing normally. That all sounds sensible in principle but I am sure that faced with that reality however much the head would understand the medical necessity, the heart would feel differently. Dad To Be and I both agreed that we were not sure that we could make a choice that would end the lives of some of babies in favour of others. I guess it is one of those situations that you can talk about and wonder about from the outside but cannot possibly comprehend until you are in it. My heart goes out to anyone who finds themselves in this situation out there in the real world.
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