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This week, Pamela Wesley tells how her mother defied the odds through prayer.
I was born in 1962, the youngest of six girls. After sister No. 4 was born, the doctor pleaded with my mother to have her tubes tied. My mother had hypertension that became more and more uncontrollable during each of her pregnancies. My mother did not have her tubes tied and became pregnant again in the summer of 1959.
The doctor pleaded with her again, but this time he was asking her to terminate the pregnancy. Once again my mother refused. The doctor warned her that she was risking both her life and the baby’s life. My mother went home and prayed as she had always done with each of her pregnancies for a healthy baby.
After a very difficult nine months, my mother delivered another healthy baby girl. Once again the doctor pleaded with her to have her tubes tied, and once again my mother refused.