{"id":159133,"date":"2017-01-02T09:01:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T14:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=159133"},"modified":"2017-01-03T12:12:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T17:12:53","slug":"mother-with-rare-pregnancy-complication-refuses-abortion-gives-birth-to-healthy-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mother-with-rare-pregnancy-complication-refuses-abortion-gives-birth-to-healthy-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother with rare pregnancy complication refuses abortion, gives birth to healthy baby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite major\u00a0advances in science, technology,\u00a0and medicine, the survival of preborn babies\u00a0is never a guarantee. In many cases, abortion is recommended to pregnant mothers who are experiencing complications that may lessen the baby’s chance of survival or potentially affect the mother’s health.\u00a0In such cases, choosing life instead of abortion means providing\u00a0a chance\u00a0for the baby instead of absolutely assuring his death — no matter how greatly the odds may be\u00a0stacked against him.<\/p>\n

One mother did just that for her son earlier this year at a hospital in\u00a0Angers, France.<\/p>\n

Dr. Pierre-Emmanuel Bouet, an obstetrician at the University of Angers Hospital Center, says he was\u00a0shocked\u00a0when he\u00a0discovered a\u00a0medical anomaly\u00a0via ultrasound in one of his patients, a 33-year-old pregnant\u00a0woman. The woman had an inch-long\u00a0rupture in her uterus, and the baby’s legs were sticking out through it. Bouet told The Washington Post<\/a> that such cases are extremely rare, with this instance representing only the 27th such recorded\u00a0case.<\/p>\n

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The mother’s ultrasound, showing her son’s legs sticking out of her womb<\/p><\/div>\n

The cause of the rupture, according to Bouet, was most likely uterine scarring caused by the patient’s five prior C-sections. The scarred area became unusually rigid instead of expanding, resulting in a rupture.<\/p>\n

While most women with uterine ruptures may experience pain and internal bleeding, Bouet says that in this case, the baby’s legs (along with the amniocele) served to plug the rupture, blocking internal bleeding. Despite the lack of internal bleeding, risks were still present. In a report on the case published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine<\/a>, Bouet and colleague Dr. Charlyne Herondelle explained, “The patient and her partner were informed of the potential risks of these findings, including complete uterine rupture [which can suffocate the baby<\/a> due to a lack of oxygen], placenta accreta, hysterectomy, and preterm birth.”<\/p>\n

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