Seeing this and reading this story, I could not help but think of St Gianna Beretta Molla whose stands out as a great example of a saintly woman who exercised this self-sacrificing love and heroic virtue.
A mother made the ultimate sacrfice by refusing cancer treatment to give birth to a healthy baby boy.
Lorraine Allard was told four months into the pregnancy the devastating news that she was in the advanced stages of cancer.
A further blow came when doctors advised her to terminate the foetus [kill the baby], which was 23 weeks old, and start chemotherapy straight away.
Instead, she insisted on waiting long enough to give her unborn son a chance to survive, telling her husband, Martyn: "If I am going to die, my baby is going to live."
This selfless love and dedication brings tears to my eyes.
A Caesarian section was scheduled at 26 weeks but Mrs Allard, 33, went into premature labour a week before and Liam was born on November 18. [He weighed a mere 1 lb 11 oz]
She then began chemotherapy but passed away on January 18, having left her sickbed a handful of times to cradle her son in her arms beside his incubator.
Lorraine Allard died on January 18. Please remember her in your prayers.
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