My (29M) wife (27F) got pregnant by an embryo from a woman who just passed away. Do I get to decide if we keep the baby?
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Sorry for the weirdly worded title. I just didn’t know how to phrase it.<br><br>My wife was told she was infertile when we got married. That changed when a few months ago, her sister and brother in law gave her the embryo from a pregnancy they had after 5 years of trying to conceive. Their only hope was that my wife would be able to carry one of their babies. It was honestly surreal. A whole human was the size of my thumb, and had a personality, and dreams, and a smile… all gone. Dead before my wife even got a chance to meet her. I felt awful, but I felt a sense of hope for my wife and I, and was hopeful we could finally have a child of our own.<br><br>My wife was obviously very emotionally invested in this, and was so happy to carry this baby, and we began making a nursery. Everything was picture perfect.<br><br>Then the procedure went horribly wrong. They were able to successfully implant the embryo in my wife, but now my wife is pregnant. We are just as shocked as everyone else. A lot of medical staff are telling us this is a miracle, but to me, it’s not something to be celebrated.<br><br>The chances of this pregnancy succeeding are low. If it does happen to succeed, I’m not sure I’m okay with bringing a dead woman’s child into the world I have to share with my wife. My wife wants to keep the baby no matter what, and I’m not sure where I draw the line. I feel awful saying that, but the idea of a baby feels very different when you’ve actually carried it for months. I don’t know if I would feel differently about the baby if my wife was not the one who carried it.<br><br>I just don’t know what to do, or how to talk to my wife about this.
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