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Woman With Terminal Cancer Gives Birth To Healthy Boy

A woman in Boston has given birth to a healthy baby boy despite having terminal cancer.

The mother, known only as Trinidad, said “For me, giving birth to this baby means a lot because despite struggling with death I am giving him life,”

Doctors strongly advised Trinidad to terminate the pregnancy when they found that cancer had spread throughout her body and she would only have a few months to live.

Trinidad found out about the cancer after she told doctors that she thought she had asthma.

At her request, the doctors used lower than normal doses of chemotherapy, so that she could keep the cancer under control under the baby was safely born.

“I am absolutely convinced that she wouldn’t be alive right now if she hadn’t have the strength of will because she wants to deliver this healthy baby.” said Dr. Jodi Abbott from Boston Medical Center.

The baby boy was delivered by Caesarean section after Trinidad had been in hospital for five months.

“Both of us survived a lot of risk and that is very meaningful to me,” the proud mother said.

Trinidad has been recording an audio diary during her time at the hospital, and hopes that her son will get to know about her hopes and dreams: “I want my baby to know that I love him more than my own life and that’s the reason why I have decided for him to be born.”

         

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Two-Month-Old Astounds Doctors By Breathing On Her Own

Two month old Kaylee Wallace has stunned Canadian doctors by miraculously surviving against all odds.

The baby girl, who suffers from the rare condition Joubert Syndrome, continued to breath after being taken off life support.

Joubert Syndrome is a brain malformation which makes breathing difficult and reduces motor functions.

Kaylee had been scheduled for a heart transplant to help a one-month-old girl who is desperate for a new heart. Kaylee’s parents had decided to take her off life support and donate her heart to Lily O-Connor.

Despite being told that Kaylee would be unable to breathe without help of a respirator, she astounded medics by breathing on her own.

Medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton from the Early Show said “When they found that she could in fact breathe, maintain her oxygenation, she no longer obviously was a candidate for organ donation.”

Canada has a different process of organ donation to the States, and donors can request specific recipients. In the States, often identities are concealed from both parties.

Baby Lily is at the top of the waiting list for a transplant. Less than 400 heart transplants are performed on babies in the USA annually due to the lack of suitable donors.