At some point during my last pregnancy, I was talking contingency
plans with my homebirth midwife. She told me a funny story about
another client who had said that were there to be some medical
emergency that came down to choosing between the baby's life and her
own, save her! Save the mom!
My response to my midwife was, "yeah, that sounds about right."
With that attitude, I started reading this LA Times piece, written by an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at UCLA, Linda Reid Chassiakos.
Chassiakos tells the story of a pregnant woman with a brain tumor who
refused life-saving treatment that would have likely killed the
24-week-old fetus growing inside her. Doctors had told her viability
for super-premature births is most likely after 28 weeks gestation and
after the fetus is at least 2 pounds.
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