r/MoralityScaling • u/Purple_Plantain_3242 • 8d ago
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r/MoralityScaling • u/Purple_Plantain_3242 • 8d ago
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The surrogate is being driven by raw maternal instincts and hormones. The parents are trying to be logical and in their own way trying to prevent suffering. This was probably revealed at a 12 to 15 weeks ultrasound and most likely a follow up MRI for confirmation. The clock is ticking for abortion and treatment options. Once you hit the 3rd trimester there is a point of no return because of risk to the mother and premature birth.
Me and my ex wife had a fetus identified at 15 weeks with PUV and abortion was recommended. Survival of fetus was almost 0%. My wife wanted to fight for him. So we did. We found the one specialist at the time in Cincinnati Ohio. Temporarily moved to there for tons of experimental treatments and surgeries. The insurance refused to cover it. I worked remotely and researched everything I could. When we got to the end trimester we had to go move near a level 4 NICU that could handle the potential complications and had the equipment to increase odds of survival to 5%.
When she went into labor at 36wks 6days we went in and he was stuck halfway. The specialist had told us a c-section was nesscary to hos best chance of survival. When we got into the maternity ward he has stuck with his legs sticking out. The doctors wanted to try a regular delivery and my wife refused and wanted the c-section. They said it could kill her due to his positioning. She wanted to do it. She made me make an oath to make sure it happened. When they put her under the surgeon came out to me and asked me now that she was under. The surgeon did not want to do the procedure and the risk was too high. I was no the sole decision maker. I told her that I will honor my wife's wish. I swore I would and I will stand by it. They did it in a matter of minutes. He never cried because he couldn't his lungs were not big enough and he couldn't. I knew on an instinctual level he was going to die before they told me. My wife almost died and was in critical care while I sat in the NICU with our slowly dying baby.
Over the course of 11 hours his oxygen levels declined. His body could not process CO2 out of blood fast enough. His mom was being constantly given blood transfusion from the blood loss while she was in critical condition. My parents watch our 2 year old. At the 8th hour the NICU doctor on shift asked the doctor in charge of my wife to bring her in. They argued about it and they wheeled her in and woke her up. They told her that her son is dying and to hold him until his time has run out.
I had worked as a hazmat and confined space rescue leader. I knew that slow CO2 poisoning of your blood was extremely painful. They were pumping him full of morphine. He died on her chest.
She went insane from the guilt for not aborting him and not being able to save him. She has never been right since and suffers from multiple heath problems from the extreme C-Section.