They continued with the pregnancy to donate their baby’s organs

donate organs of your deceased baby it’s a act of generosity immense. Continue with the pregnancy for three months despite knowing that your son is going to die to donate his organs is an even more impressive act. This is what some parents have done at the Gregorio Marañón hospital in Madrid.

science and generosity they have shaken hands in this case of organ donation. It was the parents, who know in the sixth month of pregnancy what her baby would die who told the doctors at the Madrid hospital that they wanted to donate the organs.

An ultrasound and some additional tests had confirmed that the baby had a genetic malformation which is hardly compatible with life.

that’s how they started three months of support and accompaniment to make less complicated carry that pregnancy to term. “It is very exciting to see that some parents to whom you have just told that their son is going to die come with the idea of ​​donating and giving meaning to other lives,” says a doctor from Gregorio Marañón.

During childbirth, the fetus dies as the doctors had diagnosed. At that moment, the complex heart valve transplant begins with a baby who died before birth. It is the first time that something like this is done in Spain.

Every year 2,000 babies die in Spain in the days before or after childbirth.