A couple who have been married for 18 years without getting pregnant after series of vitro fertilisation finally took seed only for the pregnant woman to be diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer. The ailment was confirmed when she fell down whilst serving noodles at work.
Hien’s (the name of the pregnant woman) only hope of saving her life was to have her breasts removed and to give up her unborn baby and undergo chemotherapy. But she refused instead begged to save her baby, even if it meant death on her part.
Hien became paralysed after the sixth month of her pregnancy and at 8 months, afraid that she might not make it as she was becoming weaker by the day, the sacrificing mother asked to have her baby delivered through C-section.
The child weighed a mere 1.8 kilograms was born in the utmost happiness of the mother. After she recovered from the hour-long operation, the first thing Hien did was fumble for her baby, saying in tears…
“I do want to live like everybody else, but I can’t lose my child, for I wouldn’t be able to live if I did. The only thing I regret is not being able to breastfeed my baby, as my breasts have already been removed. ” she said.
This post was published on July 18, 2016 9:57 PM
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