{"id":211247,"date":"2019-09-23T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=211247"},"modified":"2019-09-22T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T03:24:13","slug":"accident-pregnant-amputate-leg-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/accident-pregnant-amputate-leg-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"After a horrific accident, pregnant woman opts to amputate leg to protect baby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a horrible motorcycle accident nearly severed her foot, Caitlin Conner learned at the hospital that she was pregnant. Rather than risk harming her preborn child, Conner made a decision of sacrifice and love.<\/p>\n

In June 2014, Conner and her husband, Jaylon, married just two months, went for a motorcycle ride. According to KHOU<\/a>, that ride near Fort Worth, Texas, was a short one-mile trip to see Jaylon\u2019s mom who was recovering from her first round of chemotherapy. What should have been a pleasant ride almost cost the couple their lives when a teen driver texting at the wheel swerved into their lane and crashed into them.<\/p>\n

“We got away,\u201d Conner said. \u201cWe got into that right lane as far as we could and she just kept coming.”<\/p>\n

The accident threw the couple from the motorcycle, causing severe injuries for both. In the hospital, as doctors worked to save her partially severed foot, they discovered Conner was four weeks pregnant. Conner told KHOU, \u201cI didn\u2019t have time to worry about how I felt. I needed to focus on her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her daughter, whom she named Tinley Ryan, became Conner\u2019s focus. She refused further leg surgery and had her leg amputated below the knee. While at home, she took limited pain medication to minimize risks to her developing daughter.<\/p>\n

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