Prenatal testing is something that can be tricky. If you don't allow yourself to be injected with a variety of chemicals and viruses, YOU COULD BE RESPONSIBLE for the death of your child. If you refuse the tests, it could even be deemed "child abuse" and charges could be pressed against you. And how could you live with yourself knowing that your child had an illness or defect that could have been detected early in the pregnancy, and you could have saved the child so much pain and suffering if you would've just seen the defect and done the humane thing and aborted the pregnancy.
Here's what I think. "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." -Psalm 139:13-14
I figure that God is a pretty good knitter, and that this baby, who we've prayed over, is going to come out exactly how God wants him/her to. So I told the midwife no. To everything. And I will keep saying no until the child is born and even still after when people keep trying to INJECT MY BABY with things. Some people would probably consider this ignorant, and still some might even consider this unfair to the baby. But the truth is, I don't want to know. I want to receive the whole baby just the way he/she is, just the way God made them, and if they look a little different or think a little different they will still be perfect to God and to me. And we will handle it when it comes, if it comes.
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