What if parents defied doctors’ instructions to abort a child that had little chance of living, and he lived? Baby Jaxon’s pro-life parents did the right thing and would not abort their child, and now the little guy is doing just fine at age 1.
The Daily Mail reports,
Born with most of his brain and skull missing, baby Jaxon Emmett Buell was not expected to live. In fact his parents had been told to abort him when doctors discovered his condition.
But he has defied all odds – and now he has just celebrated his first birthday.
Baby Jaxon’s devout Christian parents, Brandon and Brittany Buell, were told by doctors that he had an extreme brain malformation, which meant he would probably not survive the pregnancy.
But Jax Strong – a nickname he has earned on social media – is now one years old. His inspirational story has captivated families across the U.S., with nearly 90,000 people ‘liking’ his page on Facebook and 18,000 people sharing his story.
Jaxon was diagnosed as having Anencephaly, a neural tube birth defect in which a child is born without parts of the brain and skull, but doctors were still unsure of how severe his condition would be.
About 1 in 4,859 babies in the United States will be born with Anencephaly and usually die shortly after birth, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Jaxon is not out of the woods yet. His parents realize any day he might not make it, but their faith is helping them through. A GoFundMe page has been set up to help with the expensive medical bills. Watch the odds-defying little guy walking and talking in the video below.