What Article???

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What article are you all talking about? I want to read it so I can

be mad, too.

I can't imagine somebody wishing their child was never born!! Well,

they better wake up and smell the pulmozyme. I think people like

that should walk a day in the shoes of a childless couple, maybe the

would not get it, they are usually too selfish to begin with.

mom of a 10 wcf, Venanzio 7 nocf, Pepe 3 nocf

-- In cfparents , " Angie & Partin "

<a & jpartin@n...> wrote:

> Christal,

>

> I couldn't have said it better. I just can't imagine wishing my

child wasn't born. I realize he has a lot " milder " version of cf (so

far) than most, so we don't have the troubles other do, but I

wouldn't change a thing. I thank God everyday for my son.

>

> Angie (Ma to JC, 3yo, wcf)

> Re: ARTICLE: Better to never have been born?

Just need to vent

>

>

> Reading this article made me realize just how ignorant some

people can be. I

> was angered by it tremendously. First of all the fact alone

that these

> people can't accept the special children they are given. No our

children may not

> be the " normal " happy go lucky kids we would like to of had, but

they are still

> our kids. Then the fact that in this day and age when people can

have kids

> thanks to the miracle of invetro they can't do something as

simple as a genetic

> screening to find out what each person carries. And do these

people realize

> that even thought the donor egg was a carrier and the father was

a carrier

> that they only had a 1 in 4 chance of that baby being born with

CF. These are

> odds that if I could not have a child any other way I would take.

> Then it made me think about my own son. If I had know that I was

a carrier

> and so was his father would we of still had him. OF COURSE!

There is not a

> doubt in my mind. I love my son, he is my world. No he may not

have the life I

> dreamt of for him while I was pregnant but that doesn't make him

any less

> wanted. And I would change a thing about him. And we have a

beautiful little

> girl to prove that the odds aren't always against us. Yes I have

a child with

> CF but I also have a child who is only a carrier and one who is

neither. We

> need to love our children unconditionally regardless of whether

they are

> " normal " , a cfer or a down syndrome baby. We are special people,

given these special

> children because someone knows we can handle it.

>

> Christal mom of tristan 6 ncf, Zack 2pwcf, and Ki'a 8 months ncf.

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