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So the girls on the program just told me the CRAZIEST story. They were in clinic and one couple had a set of triplets. The father, however, decided that he didn't want three more children, so he told the doctor that he didn't want the baby girl with the heart condition. Another couple had a baby girl, but she eventually died. So the doctor took the unwanted triplet and introduced it to the childless couple as their daughter. He told the other mother that only two of her triplets survived. Yea. He did a baby swap.
Isn't that crazy? Very "Midnight's Children"/Days of our Lives. He told the grandparents that their granddaughter wasn't their own, and they'll tell the parents after they've bonded with the child. Apparently, the husband just returned from Iraq and has some kind of trauma. We suspect (but don't know for sure) that the death of his child would be too much for him, so that's why the grandparents were all right with the switch, but we really don't know.
The situation is just so....yea. The doctor is playing God. Literally breaking and making families and lives. I can see the temptation, though. If the little girl had gone to the orphanage, at best she would never be adopted, at worst, she would die. No one wants to adopt a girl, much less a girl with a heart condition. And for the other couple, the trauma of losing a baby... the problem seems so complicated and the solution seems so easy. In a country where human life is so abundant it becomes cheap. During a time when a tsunami or an earthquake can wipe out entire villages and cities. I can see the temptation. But what if the new parents find out and reject her? What if she dies? Wouldn't that be even more traumatizing after bonding with her?
In another case, a little boy had hydrocephaly. Somehow, the nerve to his bladder was damaged so he has to live with a catheter for the rest of his life to drain his bladder. The doctor was saying that his quality of life would be awful and the parents would suffer as well. So the doctor decided it would be best to let the child get menengitis and die. Again, I can see the temptation. How can I judge when I don't really know?
Yea, I'm REALLY glad I don't have to make those decisions and, hopefully, I'll never have to.
Isn't that crazy? Very "Midnight's Children"/Days of our Lives. He told the grandparents that their granddaughter wasn't their own, and they'll tell the parents after they've bonded with the child. Apparently, the husband just returned from Iraq and has some kind of trauma. We suspect (but don't know for sure) that the death of his child would be too much for him, so that's why the grandparents were all right with the switch, but we really don't know.
The situation is just so....yea. The doctor is playing God. Literally breaking and making families and lives. I can see the temptation, though. If the little girl had gone to the orphanage, at best she would never be adopted, at worst, she would die. No one wants to adopt a girl, much less a girl with a heart condition. And for the other couple, the trauma of losing a baby... the problem seems so complicated and the solution seems so easy. In a country where human life is so abundant it becomes cheap. During a time when a tsunami or an earthquake can wipe out entire villages and cities. I can see the temptation. But what if the new parents find out and reject her? What if she dies? Wouldn't that be even more traumatizing after bonding with her?
In another case, a little boy had hydrocephaly. Somehow, the nerve to his bladder was damaged so he has to live with a catheter for the rest of his life to drain his bladder. The doctor was saying that his quality of life would be awful and the parents would suffer as well. So the doctor decided it would be best to let the child get menengitis and die. Again, I can see the temptation. How can I judge when I don't really know?
Yea, I'm REALLY glad I don't have to make those decisions and, hopefully, I'll never have to.
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