Charity Ann

Finding out that I was pregnant again 6 months after the death of Caleb was scary at first. Then as time went on we became more excited about it as we started to feel the baby kick. So many memories of Caleb would come to mind as I was pregnant with Charity. Then at our 20 week ultrasound, we found out devastating news that Charity had a cyst on the back of her head, her cerebellum was almost non-existent and they could barely find one kidney in the pelvis...and now here Ben and I are just still freshly grieving the loss of Caleb and the Dr's are telling us that she is not going to survive. Dr. McMahon gave us the option to have her at 21 weeks or we could wait. So we waited. I could not even imagine, to end a pregnancy when the baby was still alive. I wanted to give her the best possible chance for survival that I could, even if she didn't survive, I would know that I did what I could to give her the best chance at survival.
As the weeks went on her head size and the cyst size continued to get larger. Dr. McMahon said that her head size not including the cyst could not get bigger then 40 weeks. At 40 weeks head size we would have to deliver. Charity remained very active and everything excluding her head was growing at a normal rate. The pelvic kidney became more visable and seemed to be working well.