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At only 25 weeks, little Jett Moris was born prematurely measuring only 1.4lbs.
Mommy Mhairi endured a preterm premature rupture of membranes in which her waters breaks before she reaches her full term.
Later, she was diagnosed with placenta praevia where her placenta formed underneath the baby that can result to bleeding and infection.
Within 48 hours, she was informed that she’s going to a labor and the baby would die.
However, after a few days, she was allowed to go home as she still hadn’t given birth. 12 days later, she was brought back to the hospital because of bleeding.
According to Mhairi and husband Paul, they were forced to abort the ‘non-viable’ unborn son. However, despite the doctors findings, Jett survived five more weeks in the womb after the waters of his mom broke at 20 weeks in her pregnancy.
From a tiny tot weighing less than a pack of sugar, Jett has now turned into a 1-year-old healthy boy.
The couple said their son would not be with them today if they heeded the advise of medics at East Surrey Hospital to end her pregnancy by giving them 5 minutes to agree with the clinic’s terms.
Mhairi said no and declined to go to the theatre where her baby wold have been terminated.
Despite the repeated calls from the nurses in the following days, and warnings from the doctors that Jett’s brain could be damaged and he would probably die because of undeveloped lungs, she waited, convinced her unborn son was healthy.
The 34-year-old mom shared her experience, “They didn’t see him as a child yet, they just called him a ‘non-viable foetus’. It was cold and I was devastated. I was in the early pregnancy unit and no-one from paediatrics came to talk to me about my other options. But I’d just had a 20 week scan and everything was perfect and finding out it was a boy made it very hard to accept a termination. The doctor said ‘we’re going to get you into theatre. You have to have a termination because there’s nothing we can do’.”
She added that she did understand that doctors have to inform them the worst case scenario but “no two people on this Earth are exactly the same and doctors didn’t even give Jett a chance.When he came back in and Paul and I had talked we told him I wouldn’t be going into theatre and the doctor looked at his watch and rolled his eyes at me, as if I was wasting time. I said to Paul ‘we have to get out of here’.”
Jett went through jaundice and chronic lung disease but he eventually recovered when his organs developed.
Three weeks before his original due date, little Jett was allowed to go home. Then, in the following months, he was taken off an oxygen machine.
photo from mirror.co.uk
“We have a happy outcome but I worry that other mothers could have had an abortion when their babies might have survived. I was given such a bleak outlook that I kept thinking ‘he’s not supposed to be healthy’ and was waiting for something to happen, but it never did,” Mhairi said. “I was given such a bleak outlook that I kept thinking ‘he’s not supposed to be healthy’ and was waiting for something to happen, but it never did.”
She now hopes her story will be shared to other pregnant moms who are faced with the same situation.
