{"id":332609,"date":"2025-06-11T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=332609"},"modified":"2025-06-12T15:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T20:13:30","slug":"god-final-say-difficult-prenatal-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/god-final-say-difficult-prenatal-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Family learns &#8216;God has the final say&#8217; after difficult prenatal diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><b><i>Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this guest post are solely those of the guest author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We don\u2019t know what she will be able to feel or control.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She may be blind.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She probably won\u2019t hear very well.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She probably won\u2019t be able to eat from her mouth.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSometimes these babies&#8217; lungs don\u2019t talk to their brains when they are born.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Claims like these are the last you ever wish to hear when you\u2019re pregnant. Yet my husband and I found ourselves facing specialist after specialist, being run through the potentials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We \u201cknow\u201d so much nowadays, and although great technological advancements have resulted in so much good \u2014 they have been a means of lifesaving treatment for our daughter \u2014 I think it\u2019s easy to forget we don&#8217;t hold <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">all <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the knowledge, or power, in our hands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Christmas season of 2023 was upon my husband, our two young boys, and me when we found out we were pregnant with our third baby. Though we\u2019d been trying for number three, the double pink lines still stunned us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This pregnancy, however, was different from the start.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>&#8220;Something felt off&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extreme mental struggles surfaced in the first trimester\u2014turmoil so unlike the pregnancies with the boys. And joy erupted at the anatomy scan as we heard, \u201cIt\u2019s a girl!\u201d like music to our ears. But I was no rookie. Something felt off about the silence of the sonographer. I pushed the uneasy feeling aside.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_332612\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332612\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-332612\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-1-700x379.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-1-700x379.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-1-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-1-500x271.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-332612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of baby Laurel Rose&#8217;s ultrasound (Courtesy of Nielsen family)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spring came, and the day after Easter, our midwife\u2019s voice crackled through the phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey found some&#8230; concerning things on the anatomy scan.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That evening our lovely midwives faced us in our living room.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSpina Bifida&#8230; where the spinal column is not completely closed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHydrocephalus&#8230; fluid built up in the brain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Words poured forth, and though our minds understood, our hearts couldn\u2019t quite keep up. We\u2019d already named her \u2014 Laurel Rose. It means \u201cVictory Rose\u201d and refers to Jesus rising from the grave. Indeed, one of the first things I believe I heard from God after the midwife\u2019s call that morning was, \u201cRemember her name.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Breaking the news to family and friends, we prayed, they prayed, and many more prayed for us. We\u2019d found ourselves in a canyon-carved desert, where we could barely see our next step. But the Good Shepherd doesn\u2019t abandon His sheep in the wild. He leads<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">them through it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At a specialist, the findings were confirmed. \u201cWe have a plan,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just like that, we made for a bigger city \u2014\u00a0the end goal to undergo fetal surgery. Laurel\u2019s back would be repaired while she was still in the womb. We met a team of professionals, receiving a crash course in these complex conditions. We were even starting to \u201cget used to\u201d the idea of them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_332613\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332613\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-332613\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-2-525x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-2-525x700.jpg 525w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-2-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-332613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby Laurel Rose is born (Photo courtesy of the Nielsen family)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><strong>&#8220;How Your stories end&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But on the morning after a required MRI for surgery approval, we sat across from a kind doctor as he said, \u201cI\u2019m afraid this is much worse.\u201d He spoke of the new diagnosis results from the MRI reading: \u201cSemilobar Holoprosencephaly.\u201d The doctor drew a diagram of a brain that had not fully split into two hemispheres. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What had seemed a manageable storm to us erupted into a full-blown hurricane.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An hour later, we sat with yet another specialist. I remember thinking, by God\u2019s grace, \u201cWhere is this going? What are You planning? I know how Your stories end \u2014 and they don\u2019t end like this.\u201d Still, I\u2019d never felt so numb as we sat in the waiting room afterward.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back home, God continued to sustain us \u2014 step by step, minute by minute. Sometimes that was all we could handle, but that was all we needed to. Time and again, I came across stories of wonderful outcomes from seemingly dark prognoses. Furthermore, personal research led me to highly doubt this new diagnosis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, despite it all, including continuing mental struggles, I asked my mom and sister to plan a baby shower. We would live with family closer to the hospitals for the rest of the pregnancy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scans were frequent now, and due to an enlarged head size, they decided Laurel had to come early. At 33 weeks \u2014 the same number of years Jesus walked this earth \u2014 Laurel Rose was delivered via C-section.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They rushed her to another room as protocol dictated. Because of how she was delivered, we hadn\u2019t heard her cry and knew nothing for minutes, but there was a peace upon my husband and me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou want to see her, dad?\u201d a doctor said cheerily. My husband jumped up and walked over just as the song \u201cSee a Victory\u201d \u2014 like her name \u2014 began to blast out loud on my shuffled playlist. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She was wide-eyed as they rolled her by, and I was able to tell her I loved her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_332614\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332614\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-332614\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-3-525x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-3-525x700.jpg 525w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-3-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-3.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-332614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby Laurel Rose (Photo courtesy of the Nielsen family)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The day she was born, Laurel underwent both brain and back surgery. A successful NICU stay began.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you may imagine, it was to our great shock when a second MRI in the NICU did <em>not<\/em> retract the Holoprosencephaly diagnosis, but shifted it to the Alobar \u2014\u00a0or \u201cmost severe\u201d \u2014 form.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what had these days been teaching us?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?\u201d (Matthew 6:27.)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNo wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD.\u201d (Proverbs 21:30.)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGod is love.\u201d (1 John 4:16)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Focusing on today<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a good deal of processing, I took simple but wise advice to heart: just focus on today. Only God holds the keys to tomorrow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laurel was released from the NICU the day before her original due date. Now, after many \u201ctodays,\u201d she is nearly a year old.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_332615\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332615\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-332615\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-4-525x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-4-525x700.jpg 525w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-4-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-4-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/baby-Lauren-4.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-332615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby Laurel Rose (Photo courtesy of the Nielsen family)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has control and feeling of her entire body. She isn\u2019t blind. Her hearing is fine.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She absolutely loves her bottles \u2014 and baby food even more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is still working on many things, yes, but progressing wonderfully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For all the tears and fears and claims, we\u2019re learning that it&#8217;s only God Who has the final say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0You can\u2019t know any one person&#8217;s future by anything other than living it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/actnow.io\/G3Bhv6M\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-332271\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-700x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-700x251.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-768x275.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-500x179.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02.jpg 1167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this guest post are solely those of the guest author. We don\u2019t know what she will be able to feel or control. She may be blind. She probably won\u2019t hear very well. She probably won\u2019t be able to eat from her mouth. \u201cSometimes these babies&#8217; lungs don\u2019t talk to their brains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":332611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7077,9455],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Family learns &#039;God has the final say&#039; after difficult prenatal diagnosis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After a good deal of processing, I took simple but wise advice to heart: just focus on today. 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