In a time of tremendous grief, one woman chose to help the babies of other moms to honor the one she lost. Sierra Strangfeld made the selfless decision to pump breast milk for donation, even though her baby was gone.
In a time of tremendous grief, one woman chose to help the babies of other moms to honor the one she lost. Sierra Strangfeld made the selfless decision to pump breast milk for donation, even though her baby was gone.
Strangfeld had oped to breastfeed her baby boy, Samuel. But a little more than halfway through her pregnancy, she found out her baby had Trisomy 18, a rare genetic condition that affects about 1 in 6,000 live births.
When it became clear Samuel was not going to survive much longer in utero, Strangfeld has an emergency c-section. He lived for three hours.
"His hands were clenched, his feet were clubbed, he was small," she told "Good Morning America." "But he was so perfect. He fought so hard to be able to meet us. Our baby boy was put on this Earth for a reason."