Abilene couple prepares to say goodbye to unborn son with rare disorder

Abilene couple prepares to say goodbye to unborn son with rare disorder

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) - A young couple from Abilene is preparing to welcome their unborn son, but they must say goodbye as soon as the baby is born. Mom, Zoey West, explains she was excited and overjoyed to be pregnant and to start a family with her boyfriend of three years, Colby Breeding. The pair has known each other since they were preteens, and West remembers the moment she saw the positive pregnancy test. "I was scared at first, just…

When Gitty Versteijlen from Eindhoven was twenty weeks pregnant, she learned that her child only had a one percent chance of survival. Still, she wanted to go for it: “I said, let's assume possibilities”. Thijn was only alive for a few hours after he was born 16 years ago. The impression he made on his mother is indelible: “I still think about him every day.” For six years, Gitty had been trying to get pregnant. After she had actually given up h…