Shock turned into fear. Doctors immediately warned them: carrying six babies is incredibly risky. There isn’t enough room in the uterus, and there might not be enough nutrients for everyone. They were offered “selective reduction”—a terrifying medical term meaning the removal of several embryos to give the others a better chance of survival.
Lauren and David faced the hardest choice of their lives. How can you choose which of your children gets to live and which does not? They looked at each other and made a decision.
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“We are keeping them all,” they said. They decided to trust fate. If God gave them six children after years of infertility, they would fight for every single one of them.
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