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It's not an easy road, to raise a child with special needs, but my parents rose to the situation and they are quite frankly, my parenting heros.

Keep the baby without a doubt. Love them more then possible because they need it and how could you not?!?

@looch: this exactly.

Personally, I would keep a special needs child.

But I was under the impression that the bio parents possibly requested to terminate the special needs pregnancy but the surrogate refused to go through with the procedure? If that's true, then that situation is pretty complex and ideally would have been discussed and agreed upon beforehand by both parties!

I find this thread to be in extremely poor taste given the circumstances of one of our community members.

@MsLipGloss: Co-sign.

@MsLipGloss: agree.

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Walled you as well.

@mrbee: I read that the agency knew earlier and the surrogate wasn't told until 7 months for a late term termination...

@mediagirl: I've read different accounts. One that said the parents knew (along with the agency at 4 months).

In the most recent article, AU couple is claiming that they didn't even know about the boy. That they were only told that the surrogate had a singleton girl. They also said they had a traumatizing experience with the agency...

I would definitely keep the baby. Raising a child with special needs isn't easy or ideal, but expecting life to be easy and ideal is a fallacy. I greatly admire parents of special needs children. This child (a human being) deserves to be loved by his/her parents the same way a "regular" child does.

At the age of 5 your child could be in an accident that causes brain damage... you wouldn't give up that child, would you? My sister (with borderline personality disorder) was a NIGHTMARE during her teenage years and my parents didn't (and still haven't) abandoned her just because she was/is extra hard to deal with (and trust me, it's hard). Just because you know at birth that raising the child will be harder, it doesn't seem right to give up on that child, imo anyway.

@MsLipGloss: Agree.

And as someone struggling to raise a newborn with special needs along with many other health issues I've asked myself many times what I would have done if I'd known about this earlier. It's a tough question. I love him intensely and would give the world for him but you don't know what you'd do until you've been there.

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: first of all, I know for a fact that you are misquoting what MsLipgloss said. Second of all, it was inappropriate and unnecessary for you to call her out for asking you to do something to protect the feelings of a valued member of this community. While hurting feelings may not have been your intention, this thread is clearly broaching on a very sensitive topic that directly affects at least two people I can think of in the very recent history.

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I had a CVS done today to test for chromosomal abnormalities, specifically Down Syndrome. I have been a wreck for a week since my nuchal translucency. This is truly a situation that NO ONE understands until they've been through it.

I appreciate everyone sticking up for me and anyone else who's going through a similar situation.

@swedishfish: We got yo back, girl I'm not even going to pretend I understand what you're going through or what I'd do in a similar situation. So many ((hugs)) to you!

@blackbird: You said that much nicer than I was going to.... lol....

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I think this thread probably went to a (very sensitive) place that you didn't intend. Maybe the better conversation, and more intended, conversation is how to handle the rights of a parent v surrogate when there is a difference of opinion as to the child, whether it's a health or custody issue. Just a thought.

Mr. Bee is still on vaca with limited internet access, so it may take him awhile to see the request. They're also in a totally different time zone!

In the meantime, maybe everyone can agree to maybe just halt commenting for the time being til Mr. Bee can close it. I don't think anyone had cruel intentions, and the OP has apologized.