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Right on schedule, Sierra Yoder went into labour.

It was Halloween night, and she was wearing an orange T-shirt with a pumpkin covering her belly. It was embellished with her new son’s name and his expected birth date: “Bentley. Due 10/31/15.”

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Yoder and her husband, Dustin Yoder, hopped into the car and headed for the hospital – but without any bottles, without any diapers, without a car seat in which to bring their newborn home.

They had packed one onesie – light blue with stars -and matching pants and warm, fuzzy socks.

The couple expected to bury their son in it very soon.

Dustin and Sierra Yoder, from Sugarcreek, a small town in Ohio, knew that Bentley had a rare condition in which his brain was growing outside of his skull. Sierra Yoder said doctors told them that their son would not live long past his birth. If he didn’t die, she said doctors warned, he would live with no cognitive function.

She said she and her husband were urged to consider abortion – and they did – but the night before the procedure, they chose to continue the pregnancy.