Woman carries dying baby to term to donate her organs
Krysta Davis was 18 weeks pregnant when she was told that the baby she was carrying had an abnormality. Her to-be-born daughter Rylei Arcadia Diane Lovett was diagnosed with anencephaly, a rare condition in which an infant is missing parts of the brain or skull. Doctors gave 23-year-old Davis and her boyfriend Derek Lovett the news that Rylei would not live for more than 30 minutes after birth. Speaking to People magazine, Krysta said that it was definitely "shocking." Doctors gave Davis two options: induce labour immediately or carry the baby to term and donate the child's organs . "[The doctor] said babies with anencephaly don't tend to survive birth let alone cord-cutting. There was no outcome where she would be able to survive on her own for very long if at all," she said, adding, "We decided that even if we couldn't bring our daughter home, no mother would have to go through what we were going to go through." Davis carried ...