just to get you thinking...

sweetie6609

Would you have a baby just to help save the life of a baby/kid you already had?? 

Tayrusso

Have you read the book/seen the movie?

sweetie6609

No, I haven't.  I saw a post about it on another board. 

Future Mrs.Amador

I don't know....that is a REALLY hard question to think about unless you were in the situation.

I'm sorry...I can't make a decision right now.

CTri17

no, how could I have a new baby just to save another...taking organs etc...It just doesn't seem right to me.

cnj050607

I absolutely would... so long as the 2nd baby would be OK in the end too! I would not bring another child into this world only to lose it to save the first though.

The way I see it is that Children are a blessing and you would be able to find a way to make it work. I would also hold onto hope that the children would be very close in the future knowing later what they went through to have each other...

sweetie6609

Future Mrs.Amador:

I don't know....that is a REALLY hard question to think about unless you were in the situation.

I'm sorry...I can't make a decision right now.

That's alright, I'm really kinda stuck on that one too.  I prob. would if I were in the situation & had a really good idea that I & the unborn baby would both be healthy & live to tell the story. 

cjwilli2

At this point in time - no I would not. 

I have a very morbid sense of reality...which could change once I have my own children.  But my current belief structure is completely against this idea.

NesJas

I am unsure about this, right now I say no but I don't have any kids and that can change.

 

I have a friend whose mom did, to save my friends life. Her baby sister and her are doing well and of course they love the baby sister and both are fully healthy.

b15chik

i don't get the question....would the new baby not live to save the other baby's life, or would it be fine?

JenniferBultman

Oh goodness- see even this question goes further in would you genetically engineer a child to be an exact match for your child.

I have huge issues with genetic engineering.  I also believe that an individual has the right to decide what to do with their body- and subjecting a child through all the rigorous tests and proceedures- I just I dont know.

I had huge issues when I read My Sister's Keeper.  That being said- as a sibling, I'd have sacraficed even my own life for my sister- and would hate my parents if I could have saved her, and didnt because I wasn't old enough to understand the situation.

My jurry's out on this one.

sweetie6609

b15chik:

i don't get the question....would the new baby not live to save the other baby's life, or would it be fine?

Well you could answer it either way.  Like that's the only way that I'd be able to do it.  If all assumptions were that the unborn baby & I would be fine after it was all said & done.  And def. no genetic engineering either.  I don't believe that's right. 

Ms.Julie

I guess I don't get it either. Are you saying that the second child wouldn't live? If that's the case, I'd say definitely not.

But if you're saying that you're just planning on using cord blood or stem cells or whatever to help the first child, etc., yes I think I would. Especially if MH and I were already planning on having more kids.

jware1985

This is a hard question, I have been thinking about it all day...

That being said I don't know that I could have another child with the sole reason of saving the first one.  But if we were planning to having more children and then they happen to be a match then yes but only if the second/third one would survive.  I have not read and or seen the movie but i think this is a hard choice to make. 

vflipo

I wouldn't. Seems like a selfish reason to have another kid. Plus, my ute sucks so having 1 child seems to be hard enough. It's an abuse of life to just say "oh this ones dying. Quick let's have another so we can save him/her." It might sound mean that I wouldn't, but that's life. People die. I would be devastated if after all we've been through to have a baby, it wasn't going to have a full life. But, I wouldn't do that .. the second child would always have a complex and think we only wanted him/her to save the sibling. Too many thongs just seem wrong about it. We might have another child just becase wanted one, but we couldn't use it like that