Mum Shares Heartwarming Story About Raising Son People Say Should Have Been Aborted

Christian’s parents, Lacey and Chris were overjoyed to find out they were having a son and eagerly began planning for the birth. However, only a week later, they received a phone call something was wrong with their baby, Mirror UK reports.

His mum, Lacey, 26, said: ‘Our little boy was diagnosed with a bilateral cleft palate and lip. We were crushed. How could this happen to us? Why did this happen to us? We’re good people – why do we deserve this?’

On her February 18, 2011, her EDD, they made their way to Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, not knowing whether they’d be coming home with Christian or not. But at 9.32am, after a C-section, Lacey and Chris were relieved to hear their baby come into the world screaming and, more importantly, was alive.

Unfortunately, it was soon clear Christian’s condition was much worse than anyone had expected. Not only was he born with a Tessier cleft lip and palate, leaving him unable to close his mouth, he also had clefted eyes. They had not formed properly and he was left with gaps where they should have been, rendering him blind. His condition is exceptionally rare and Christian is one of only 50 such cases in the whole world.

The distraught couple found themselves caught between feeling so happy their son was alive and panicking at how they would go about raising a child who couldn’t see. To make it worse, they couldn’t take him home with them.

Lacey continued:

‘Getting discharged from the hospital was a hard day. We packed our bags and as we left in the car I remember seeing Christian’s little seat, empty, and his nappy bag. We cried the whole way home. We had to leave our baby boy 60 miles away and go back to a quiet house that should’ve been ringing with the sounds of his cries.

Any time we took Christian out in public, people would stare,’ she says. ‘They would whisper behind my back, ‘Look at that baby!’ I even had one girl telling me I was a horrible person for not aborting Christian.

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As he got older, he started laughing and playing. And when people would stare, Christian would start giggling – and they would giggle too.

Those judgmental glances and whispers don’t really bother me anymore because I know that Christian is beautiful, inside and out. He is the love of my life and a miracle. I am so glad I chose life.’

Now at pre-school, he has undergone palate reconstruction surgery to help him eat, so he can live a more normal life. Christian has a healthy baby brother, Chandler, whom his parents welcomed two years after his birth.