Tampa mom knew baby would not live but carried her to term to give others life
At 14 weeks along, Catherine Mornhineway was excited for her June ultrasound.
Her morning sickness had stopped two weeks earlier. She could feel the baby kicking.
A mom of three, the black-and-white sonogram looked normal to her. She wondered if she might even get an early reveal of the baby’s gender.
The ultrasound technician went quiet. She told the couple she needed to fetch someone for one more measurement.
Soon after, Mornhineway, 30, and partner Andrew Ford were ushered to another room. A doctor told them that their baby likely had anencephaly, a severe birth defect that occurs in about 1 in 5,250 babies. It causes little or none of the brain and skull to develop.
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