Woman with brain cancer who chose baby instead of chemotherapy has died
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FOX NEWS - A Michigan woman who chose to forego cancer treatments that would have prolonged her life but ended her pregnancy died Saturday, three days after giving birth to her sixth child.
"I'll see you in Heaven,” Nick DeKlyen said to his wife just before she died.
"We stayed by her until she took her last breath," he said. "It's in God's hands now."
The 37-year-old woman died surrounded by family at University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor.
She had been in a coma since July and gave birth to a baby girl via emergency cesarean section on Wednesday.
Life Lynn weighed 1 lbs., 4 ounces at birth.
Nick DeKlyen said his daughter is doing better than expected in neonatal intensive care, gaining weight and "almost breathing on her own."
"She's going to be fine," he said. "She's going to be here for four or five months, but we expect her to be a healthy baby ... The doctor just said the timing (of the birth) couldn't have been more perfect."