When they learned that the long-awaited baby in her womb had Down's Syndrome They felt dejected. It was a very hard blow that broke the expectations that had been created and made them assess whether they should continue with the pregnancy or not.
Claire Martin and her partner, Benjamin, from Australia, decided that it was not their dream, that it was not their desire, and thinking about how hard life would be for their son and for themselves they decided to abort.
However, as it is often said, the decision to abort is also very hard, because it is an action that also has repercussions: many couples then live with the thought of what could be and was not. So at the last moment they repented.
They found out in week 15
The baby had been in his womb for 15 weeks when the gynecologist told them that something seemed to be altered. A test confirmed that the baby had Down syndrome, and what for this couple was all joy was transformed into doubts, fear and desolation.
Not without suffering, not without doubts, as we read in OKDiario, they opted to have an abortion and requested an appointment at a specialized clinic to carry out the intervention.
The day of abortion they repented
As they had decided, they went to the clinic the day they had been summoned. They entered the center and, as they were told, sat down to wait to be notified to proceed to the consultation and the whole process began. Sitting there, they felt they were not doing the right thing. Benjamin took her hand and they left the center. They looked into each other's eyes and he said, "What are we doing here? Let's go home, we can't kill this baby."
And Xabier was born
They returned home and, freed from their own decision, from the pressure they had imposed, from the suffering of saying goodbye to their baby, they began to wait for him with increasing affection and enthusiasm. So, now eight weeks ago, Xabier was born, Claire and Benjamin's son with Down syndrome who has arrived, as they explain, to make them feel happy, satisfied, happy and proud of the decision they made.
They say Xabier has come to the world to teach them what true love is, and in these two months of life it has only brought them joy, happiness and a deep feeling of gratitude to life for making their arrival possible.
Faced with such a dance of emotions, the couple wanted to share their story on the internet so that those parents who receive the news that their baby will be born with Down syndrome feel understood in the sadness of a news that breaks with the dreams of those who do not know they wait for it and also show the world that you can be completely happy being parents of a baby with this syndrome.
How valid the abortion decision can be, because they came to take it, like not doing it, which is why they finally chose.
Less and less children are born with Down syndrome
I wanted to share the news because we have known for years that children with Down syndrome are disappearing from Spain, because there are very few parents who decide to move forward with pregnancy (it is estimated that only 5% go ahead).
The decision is totally respectable because each couple knows their reality and their motivations, but every time I see a couple like this, or a father like Robb scott, who a few months ago said that having a child with Down syndrome was the best thing that had ever happened to him, or how Enrique, who explained excitedly that her daughter Clara had been chosen as a model of a clothing brand while thanking life for her arrival, I wonder if we are not denying with those figures the arrival in the world of babies, of some people, who have the ability to teach a lot to all of us who consider ourselves normal.
