Quote From: cheekerI don't know everything about this woman, her disease or her circumstances but I feel she is emotionally unstable and is only thinking of herself, rather than what is truly best for her children. She was not able to answer Dr. Phil's questions as to why she went through in-vitro only to then sign adoption papers and change her mind. Why even have in-vitro only to give the babies up for adoption???
Do you TRULY think that Allison at age 45 started her quest to become a mother and went thru the costly and time of fertility treatments with the expectation she'd give up her babies on the other side?
No. That doesn't make any sense does it.
The answer to your question is....
Allison didn't know about Hyperemesis. She didn't know she'd end up with severe, life threatening complications from which she is lucky to have survived. She thought she would be pregnant, have a baby (probably didn't anticipate the twins part), and go home to love and raiser her child. Fate threw her other circumstances, ones she never could have forseen. There's no test you can take that will tell a mom "if you get pregnant" you might die.
She wanted to be a mother. She waited until she was in a place in her life where she thought she could do it, she made a lot of reasonable decisions. A life threatening illness cost her her health, both physically and mentally. The illness, the mental depression and post traumatic stress put her in the place where she made the bad decision to adopt her children out. It was her illness.
