Maine officials have backed down in the case involving a mother who was fighting to have a DNR lifted for her child after the story gained national media exposure.
The state has been fighting against the mother of Aleah Peaslee, who was six months old when her father shook her to the point that she suffered brain damage and was hospitalized in a coma.
After Aleah was removed from life support and placed in her mother’s arms with doctors expecting her to die. Instead, Aleah rallied and eventually came out of the coma.
Her mother Virginia Trask asked for the Do Not Resuscitate order placed on her daughter when she was in the coma be lifted since she was now recovering from her injuries. The state jumped in to keep it in place saying the child still had brain damage.
After major media outlets picked up on the story, the Maine Health and Human Services Department released a statement saying that if a court upholds the order they sought to keep the DNR in place, they would not enforce it.
Observers say that the case will likely be dismissed because of the Department’s new position and the governor’s opposition to their involvement.
A woman who was given an abortion pill after a miscarriage was shocked to discover that she was still pregnant.
The woman and her husband are now celebrating the miraculous birth of their daughter Megan.
Michelle Hui believed she was pregnant with her third child with husband Ross. Six weeks into her pregnancy she suffered a miscarriage and her doctor gave her abortion-inducing drugs because they wanted to make sure her uterus was completely cleaned out.
What none of them knew at the time was that Michelle had been carrying twins and the miscarriage only took the life of one of the babies.
Ten days after she was given the medication, she went back in for another procedure and was as surprised as the doctor to hear a heartbeat.
“The doctor went out and came back in with a more senior doctor and he did the scan again and he said, ‘You are not going to believe it – we’ve got a heartbeat.’ It was the best feeling ever. Now Megan is fine. She’s healthy and she is just a big healthy pudding of a baby. The doctors said it was a blessing. They have never heard of anything like it. Someone had been looking over us,” Michelle told the Christian Post.
Her doctors could not provide a single medical reason why Megan survived.
Persecuted Christian Meriam Ibrahim has asked the world to pray for her daughter who will be undergoing an ultrasound to see if the injury from her birth will cause permanent disability.
Doctors are telling Ibrahim that it’s possible the injuries suffered at birth are not as severe as initially feared and that it’s possible the child will be able to walk on her own. Ibrahim was forced to give birth with her legs tied together with chains because the prison guards would not release her for the birth.
Ibrahim and her family have been taking refuge in the U.S. embassy after being released from prison on charges related to her Christian faith. The family has been hoping to leave the country but the Sudanese government continues to refuse to allow the family passage out of the nation.
The family has been especially sensitive to the possibility of the child being confined to a wheelchair for life because her father, Daniel Wani, is wheelchair bound because of multiple sclerosis.
