Lunch Break: Bryce Daniel
To give us a break from the daily grind…
The story of a mommy whose son was born with hydrocephalus:
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Sep.29, 2010 12:00 pm |
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What an awesome, awesome video!! Praise God for Bryce, his mommy, daddy, and little sisters. Wow, what a miracle. :) Life IS beautiful.
And if they had taken the doctor’s word for it, That beautiful little boy wouldn’t be here. I was born with Hydrocephalus 45 years ago. I am one of the few who have survived with their original shunt intact (although the valve had to be replaced when I was four). Today, not only am i FINE, I have a healthy little girl of my own. GOD IS GOOD!!! :)
wow! That’s amazing! When you think about how many parents actually choose (or are pressured into having an abortion) in these kinds of situations! Makes me shudder! And there’s these amazing stories popping out here and there of babies that were either misdiagnosed while in the womb, or miraculously pulling through once they’re born. I think when the parents fight hard and love the baby absolutely unconditionally even before he/she is born, then the baby fights to stay alive as well. Nothing is impossible to God!
Crying.
What a precious and beautiful family!
Pamela,
Thanking God for you too!!
Awwww…I just LOVE you, Carla! <3
I love you too, Pamela!!
Wow, can’t stop crying…this Mom/Dad were truly rewarded and they know it. Continued blessings on Bryce and his entire family.
I cried BUCKETS! What a wonderful/beautiful story!
Just goes to show, you never know…even if it’s a dark tunnel, you don’t know what bright beautiful light is waiting for you. Praise God!
God bless Bryce and the whole family (looks like He already has and is continuing to, how wonderful!)
What about the women who end up giving birth to stillborns? Or babies who don’t ever make it home from the hospital? Where’s the miracle then? Why does God “open the wombs” of some women and render others barren and death-giving?
http://perinatalhospice.org/Perinatal_hospices.html
This is a beautiful story, but it’s one of luck, not divine intervention.
I should make it known that I’m a big fan of palliative care options, which allow parents faced with tough pregnancies to prepare a birthing plan in advance with the help of providers, social workers and chaplains. The plan can be modified should the baby appear to have more of a chance to survive than thought, but the idea is that parents can be an intimate part of the child’s brief life instead of watching from behind the glass wall of the NICU.
Well Megan,
Don’t foist your beliefs about luck on me!! LOL
God watches over all of us. Some of us live to be a few weeks old and some of us live to be 101. His ways are not my ways.
I love your second comment!! So many of my friends that have faced early infant death and high risk pregnancies were consistently encouraged to abort.
http://www.benotafraid.net
What about the women who end up giving birth to stillborns? Or babies who don’t ever make it home from the hospital? Where’s the miracle then?
Megan,
I take exception to this part of your comment. I know a woman who gave birth to a still-born. She thought of him as a miracle and loved him dearly. There is a picture in my parents’ house of the grave marker. She remembers his birthdays and knows how old he would be had he lived. She still loves him even after many years. He was still a miracle to her. He just was meant to go live with God rather than with her for whatever reason God had.
Yes, women have questioned God regarding still borns and miscarriages, but not because those babies were any less of a miracle to them, but because they wanted to hold their alive children…however, many of those women have moved past the grief, trusting that God has/had a plan then and now.
I don’t know if you don’t have faith in God, but just because a woman miscarries or gives birth to a still born doesn’t mean their mothers don’t still believe they are miracle babies.
Carla:
I know, and it’s unfortunate. I think a lot of providers are afraid women will either be traumatized, or understand they’ll have a legal imperative to offer first-line, aggressive treatment in an otherwise “hopeless” situation. There’s a whole legal backwater to navigate. That’s why it’s important for women to have advocates, hence the “birthing plan.” I’ve been reading Rayna Rapp’s “Testing Women, Testing the Fetus,” which is a really interesting ethnography about prenatal testing and its myriad implications.
Wow! Awesome testimony of Bryce and his family.
Megan I have held women as they grieved after delivering a stillborn or had miscarriages and know the healing power of lovingly being able to say goodbye; these women heal, talk about the baby they lost and even tell their children about the sibling they lost. Babies do die that is a fact, we do not always know why and cannot always prevent it. Then I have cried with family and friends who aborted their unborn, seen their tears, pain and remorse for taking the lives of their unborn babies, totally different experience. Some never get past the pain of willingly taking the life of their child and some receive healing. There is a difference between taking an innocent life vs having a fetal demise from natural causes or delivering a stillborn.
Thanks Carla for sharing your story every time you get a chance. God bless you for helping other women to heal.
This video reminds me of my favorite scripture Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you saith the Lord, plans to prosper you, plans not for your destruction, to give you a future and a hope.” I worked in healthcare for years and have seen babies we thought would not make it not just survive but thrive. None of the doctors knew what a wonderful life Bryce would have, what a blessing he would be and that he would prove them wrong. That is why we fallible human beings should not decide which babies should live or die. Reminds me of something one of my children told me when he was little “Mommy, you don’t know everything” (I agree). Doctors do not know everything either. That is why it is called “practicing medicine” it is not an exact science it is an art.