{"id":165314,"date":"2017-04-28T18:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T22:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=165314"},"modified":"2017-04-28T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T20:42:46","slug":"mom-who-chose-carry-terminally-ill-daughter-term-donate-organs-given-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mom-who-chose-carry-terminally-ill-daughter-term-donate-organs-given-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom who chose to carry terminally ill daughter to term to donate organs has given birth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Keri Young, the mother who decided to carry her baby to term despite a terminal prenatal diagnosis in hopes of donating the baby’s organs and saving the lives of others, has given birth to her baby girl Eva.<\/p>\n

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Baby Eva Young.<\/p><\/div>\n

At 19 weeks gestation, Young and her husband Royce, a writer for ESPN, learned that their preborn daughter had anencephaly, a condition in which the skull and brain don’t properly form. Children with the condition usually only live for a few minutes to days after birth. Royce Young snapped a photo of his wife napping and shared with the world the story of this strong woman who was being completely selfless in the most difficult moments of her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI looked at her laying there, her belly big with our daughter kicking away, a daughter that won\u2019t live more than a few days, and it just overwhelmed me of how incredible this woman is,\u201d he wrote<\/a>. \u201c[\u2026] I thought back to the moment where we found out Eva wasn\u2019t perfect, and how literally 30 seconds after our doctor told us our baby doesn\u2019t have a brain, somehow through full body ugly crying, Keri looked up and asked, \u2018If I carry her full term, can we donate her organs?\u2019 [\u2026] In literally the worst moment of her life, finding out her baby was going to die, it took her less than a minute to think of someone else and how her selflessness could help.\u201d<\/p>\n

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