By Dave Andrusko I’ve often wondered what lies behind the appearance of so many stories in British newspapers about premature babies. I get that people—starting with me—are encouraged and lifted up when a little one beats the odds. If makes an even greater impact if...
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Unborn twins Isabella and Callie share a special bond – and a kiss
By Dave Andrusko John Hamburg of Fetal Vision Imaging in Levittown, Pennsylvania, told David Moye of the Huffington Post that from the beginning, he knew there was something special about the ultrasound he took of Carissa Gill’s 25-week-old unborn baby. Which prompted...
VIDEO: Crying twins Weston and Caleb comfort each other after birth
By Nancy Flanders We all know that twins bond in the womb, and that bond can stick with them throughout their lives. Now one set of twin newborn boys is showing us just how strong that twin to twin connection is and how social human beings are, even before birth....
Mom with rare eye cancer delivers healthy, cancer-free twins
By Dave Andrusko In a whirlwind of medical activity, Jessica Boesmiller had an eye removed just three weeks after a November diagnosis of a rare ocular cancer and then gave birth less than a month later to cancer-free twins—a boy, Mason Dare, and a girl, Piper Marie....
Pressured to selectively abort one of her twin girls, Heather chose life instead
By Feleica Langdon (Life Defenders) My name is Heather. My husband and I discovered that we were expecting our second child after two years of experiencing secondary infertility. Having gotten used to the idea of our three-year-old being our only child together that...
Why Kelsey Rejected Abortion’s Lie, Chose Life for Her Twin Girls
By Nancy Flanders When Kelsey learned she was pregnant as a 21-year-old business major, her pro-life stance was put to the test. Raised in a Catholic family, she had always been pro-life and would never have considered an abortion. But now that she was pregnant and...
“BOTH our babies are beautiful, precious human beings”: A beautiful response to devastating news
By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Australian football [soccer] star Gary Rohan and his wife Amie have spoken out about their reaction when they found out that one of their unborn twins has anencephaly, and is not expected to survive after...
Mother resists pressure to abort twin suspected of having Down syndrome
Mom says her son with Down syndrome is “my beautiful, happy and healthy boy” By Dave Andrusko To the doctor with his views on children with Down syndrome, it probably seemed only natural to offer his apologies to Manda Grover. After all he and others (according to...
Mother goes into labor with twins at 23 weeks, one week before the legal cut-off point for abortion in England
Doctors able to stave off delivery for three more weeks By Dave Andrusko Hull is a city in Yorkshire, with a population of some 260,000 people, and is located 155 miles north of London. You have to wonder how many other (if any) sets of twin preemies Hull Royal...
Mutual “Hug of Life” helps twins born 13 weeks premature survive
Special bond” still working 2 ½ years later By Dave Andrusko We have nurses in our family and the stories my sisters have told us about critically ill children and the resourcefulness and staying power of families are probably the most moving first-person accounts...