Chase Teddie Morris

 

 

 Our baby Chase’s story; As many of you know Me and Craig was expecting our baby boy to come into this world 20th April 2022, the boy to complete our family, our last ever baby, a little brother for Isabelle and Theo. On 23rd February our whole world came crashing down when I went for a routine growth scan, I went alone as I told Craig it was just routine and it’d be fine, it wasn’t fine. My whole world crumbled when I was told my perfect baby boy had extra fluid on his brain, I have never felt so alone, so confused, like I was there but wasn’t there at all. I came running out the room to phone Craig to come up to the hospital. After what seemed like forever we were seen by a consultant who told us what extra fluid meant for our baby, we were told he would be severely disable, we didn’t care, he was our boy and we loved him all the same. We went back to the hospital Friday where we were scanned by fetal medicine, she confirmed there was fluid on the brain and she also spotted what she thought was a bleed on his brain, we were given then awful choice to terminate my pregnancy. Me and Craig both decided to go for more tests where I was then sent for an MRI a whole week after. We were meant to go in for our mri results on the Wednesday after but on Friday night we got a phone call to say our results appointment had been brought forward to Monday. I instantly had a bad feeling but me and Craig tried to stay positive. After the longest weekend, the monday finally came, results day. We sat in a room were we heard the words no parents should ever hear, words that will stick with us forever. “The what we thought was a bleed on your baby’s brain is actually a aggressive brain tumour” our hearts broken all over again, we were told it had “pushed” his brain to the side and completely destroyed all our baby boys brain tissue, he would have 0 quality of life and probably wouldn’t survive labour, we had no choice but to terminate the pregnancy. I had the chance to take the pain and suffering from my baby boy, although the hardest decision of my life and one that had killed a part of me, I can say I got to take away any pain and suffering from him. Wednesday 9th March 2022 at 12.28pm my baby Chase’s heart stopped and mine and Craig’s did too. He finally made his appearance 12th March 2022 at 21.56, all I wanted was for everything to be a mistake and he would come out kicking and screaming, but he didn’t and that silence will stay with me forever. Every person who we have spoken to has never heard of this, midwife’s of 20+ years have never ever seen a brain tumour in an unborn baby, 3 different hospitals and still no one had seen anything like it. Why him. Our sweet baby Chase Teddie Morris, a name no one will ever forget through your uniqueness, how I wish things could be different, how I wish that nasty tumour found it’s way into me instead, but we did as any parents would and got the chance to take his pain away, I would do it again in a heart beat baby boy. “We taken on extra pain so that you didn’t have to endure any” Never in one million years did I ever think we would even consider making one of these pages, we went from looking forward to meeting you, setting up your furniture to now planning your funeral, something no parent should never need to do for their baby. The only thing we can do now is give our baby the send off he deserves and if this is how we do it then I will swallow my pride and do my upmost to make it happen. For our special boy. I can’t thank the manor hospital maternity department enough, for all the support, the things we were given in order to make special memories with our boy that will last a life time, the midwives that laughed and cried with us, cared for our baby like they would any other baby and made it the most enjoyable experience as possible. We will be doing lots of fundraisers and donating money to the them to make it possible for them to continue doing these special things for other families, In baby Chase’s name. We would love to know if anyone else has ever heard of or experienced anything like this, as so far everyone we have encountered has never heard anything like it, any donations would be so gratefully appreciated, I already can’t thank everyone enough for their lovely words and support please please share x