Young, an NBA writer for ESPN, shared his story in an emotional essay for Medium.com that has gone viral. "So here’s the backstory: In December, my wife Keri and I went in for the standard 19-week anatomy scan of our second child,” he wrote. "In our case, our daughter was diagnosed with a rare birth defect called anencephaly. Some three in 10,000 pregnancies rare. Congratulations to us. The phrase our doctor used in explaining it was 'incompatible with life,' which looks as terrible in words as it sounds."
The couple, who are already parents of a young son, Harrison, talked about their options. "We considered terminating. We had to. Were we capable of taking on the weight of the 20 weeks ahead?” he continued. "In our minds, we were intentionally taking on the loss of a child, rather than the loss of a pregnancy. And yes, there is a difference."
After some soul-searching, they came to the decision to donate their daughter's organs, so another child could live. "We decided to continue, and chose the name Eva for our girl, which means 'giver of life,’” Royce wrote. "The mission was simple: Get Eva to full-term, welcome her into this world to die, and let her give the gift of life to some other hurting family."
An Oklahoma City couple lost their second child, Eva, last week, and the father, Royce Young, wrote about the painful and heartbreaking decision to bring the baby to term knowing that their daughter would not live longer than a few days or even hours.
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Young, an NBA writer for ESPN, shared his story in an emotional essay for Medium.com that has gone viral. "So here’s the backstory: In December, my wife Keri and I went in for the standard 19-week anatomy scan of our second child,” he wrote. "In our case, our daughter was diagnosed with a rare birth defect called anencephaly. Some three in 10,000 pregnancies rare. Congratulations to us. The phrase our doctor used in explaining it was 'incompatible with life,' which looks as terrible in words as it sounds."
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The Young Family Mitzi Aylor / Aylor Photography
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The couple, who are already parents of a young son, Harrison, talked about their options. "We considered terminating. We had to. Were we capable of taking on the weight of the 20 weeks ahead?” he continued. "In our minds, we were intentionally taking on the loss of a child, rather than the loss of a pregnancy. And yes, there is a difference."
After some soul-searching, they came to the decision to donate their daughter's organs, so another child could live. "We decided to continue, and chose the name Eva for our girl, which means 'giver of life,’” Royce wrote. "The mission was simple: Get Eva to full-term, welcome her into this world to die, and let her give the gift of life to some other hurting family."
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