TERESA Streckfuss will give birth to her fifth child tomorrow.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
Her daughter Charlotte Mary will live for just a few hours before her life
\nis claimed by anencephaly, a rare condition that inhibits brain development.<\/p>\n
Teresa, 27, and her husband Mark, 28, have known of the condition and its
\ncertain outcome for six months.<\/p>\n
Most babies with anencephaly are aborted, but Teresa and Mark decided to go
\nahead and give Charlotte life – no matter how fleeting.<\/p>\n
The couple, from Creswick, in Victoria’s rural northeast, "There is no way to avoid the sad fact that Charlotte cannot live long Tomorrow morning their family will be at the hospital with them: two sets The family will sing to Charlotte, read to her, hold her, treasure her. <\/p>\n …"We believe the value of Thomas Walter, Benedict "Benedict made us slow down, savour life and treasure our other children "He made us realise that we cannot control or predict what will happen. This is sad but also beautiful. Too bad there are those who think that those children who have such a limited life span should have it be even shorter through abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TERESA Streckfuss will give birth to her fifth child tomorrow. Her daughter Charlotte Mary will live for just a few hours before her life is claimed by anencephaly, a rare…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nnever considered an abortion. They wanted the chance to say hello to their
\ndaughter before they
\nhad to say goodbye<\/span>.<\/p>\n
\nafter birth with this condition," Teresa said, "but causing her to
\ndie earlier will not stop this happening. Causing her to die earlier will only
\ntake from us the beautiful experience of knowing and loving her."<\/p>\n
\nof grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins as well Charlotte’s big sister Cecilia,
\n6, and her brothers Sebastian, 4, and Elijah, 17 months.<\/p>\n
\nand Charlotte cannot be measured by the length of their lives. We don’t apply
\nthis yardstick to adults,
\nso why should we to babies?" Teresa said. <\/span><\/p>\n
\neven more.<\/p>\n
\nAnd how often are we given the opportunity to really give another person true,
\nunconditional love? It is a blessing to experience that kind of pure love."
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