A Missouri couple disclosed why they are keeping their baby, who will be born with congenital abnormalities that would kill her within hours.
First Alert 4 was informed by Christopher and Elizabeth Mullen of House Springs, which is close to St. Louis, that they are getting ready for the birth of their daughter Lakelynn as well as her burial.
On January 31, the Missouri couple received the devastating news that their unborn daughter will be born with anencephaly, a fatal birth condition in which the infant is born.
With an underdeveloped brain and skull. The little girl will thus barely survive for a few hours to a few days after delivery. Elizabeth said to First Alert 4, “It broke a piece of my heart.”
Her spouse said, “I really wanted to bring another person into this world.” The CDC estimates that one in 5,000 newborns in the US has the illness, which has no known remedy.
