My wife had a premature rupture of membranes.
Basically, her water broke at less than 17 weeks.
Our wonderful doctor never even talked about doing anything buy trying to keep our little Bear. Others told us that Little Bear would be disabled, in pain, and that we were horrible selfish people to “put your child through that”.
My wife had four months of bed rest, followed by 71 days in the NICU for my daughter. She is now three, and while she is very small you wouldn’t know what she went through.
I am very grateful for our wonderful doctor. Most OBGYN’s would have not allowed us to do anything but induce labor. Many locally were not happy with our doctor for trying to keep her.
God bless you and your beautiful family!
I have two Down Syndrome grandchildren. One born naturally to my son and daughter in law, and the other one they adopted.
They are both so happy and loving.