Carlin Stewart is about two months away from her due date with Baby #3. She and Evan Stewart are waiting until their little one arrives to find out the gender. Carlin's doctors decided that she needs to start doing shots twice a day for her blood-clotting disorder, which is something she did during her pregnancies with Layla and Zade. She was also recently told that she needs to have more frequent appointments to monitor the baby. You can find out more in the Stewarts' newest video.
Watched the video. Carlin looks great and it’s nice to see what a great relationship her and Evan have. The kids are adorable and will be great big siblings. Can’t wait to see little Stewart baby number three.
ReplyDeleteIsn't this interfering with God's design for her motherhood? I don't understand.
ReplyDeleteHuh? How do you not understand her needing extra medical care so that she and baby are safe and healthy?
DeleteI agree with above commenter. Everything that happens in there life os GODS will
DeleteIf you are born with a clotting disorder (the way God made you) that would prevent you from having successful pregnancies and you have medical intervention to change that, then you are going against God's will for you. You can't twist that to say that you're doing it for the baby when you know you're doing it for yourself and your desire to be a mother. Do we put our desires before what God has planned for us?
DeleteSo you don’t go to the doctor when you are ill? When you get cancer then you just wait until you die. Or when you have a chronic illness that cause you a lot of pain you don’t take any medication cause your were ment to suffer. And when you have a headache or a fever you never take tylenol …???? Otherwise your I am sorry you are being a hypocrit.
Delete@7:59 That's not a valid comparison. Reproduction is different than catching a cold or getting cancer. You don't go to a doctor if you're unable to get sick or if you somehow don't get cancer. Reproduction is something you choose to try. There is intention. There is a life other than yours involved. The Bates family has always said that family size is up to God, so that ultimately takes things out of their hands. If God has ordained that their family size should be zero children, then anything they do to change that goes against God's plan. If there's any hypocrisy, then it's saying one thing but doing another. Trying to stack the deck in your favor for reproduction is not God's original design for you, is it. Where do you draw the line? Do you attempt IVF too (or more), in hopes of becoming a parent? There are moral questions here for sure.
DeletePart of living in a broken world (since Adam and Eve's sin) is death and sickness. If you're going to use the clotting disorder argument, then you also have to say that no one should have any type of corrective surgery or get treatment for a cleft palate or nearsightedness or anything else you're born with. Makes no sense.
Delete@2:05 Those things are not what you do if you're trying to have a baby. It's the babies they say come from God. Then why is it OK do things yourself to up the odds of getting those babies? Keep the discussion to babies.
DeleteIn other words, getting treatment for the clotting disorder is helping her body function according to God's original design for a woman's reproduction. God created people with the ability to problem-solve and invent, and we all benefit from that in so many ways, medical and otherwise. Her treatment is not selecting which embryo gets to live, which is a completely different ethical argument.
DeleteIf you're doing something to change your chances of having or not having children, then according to what the Bates have said, you are trying to change God's plan.
Delete@9:31 Your comment implies that all women are supposed to be able to reproduce and if they can't, they haven't "problem-solved" enough. ????
DeleteWow the arguments that I see on here just baffle the mind. I'm wondering if there's any point to this website anymore. It's become a public gossip column. What a shame.
Delete12:34, you are ignoring the fact that she is doing the shots WHILE she is pregnant. Not to GET pregnant. It is healthcare ordered by her doctor!! Let's keep the discussion to what is actually happening here.
DeleteIn answer to taking medical advice for any disorder, there are times in the Bible when God leads someone to take medicine for whatever is wrong with them. Maybe it's God's will she take these medical things
Delete@6:56 If she didn't have the shots then she probably wouldn't stay pregnant and wouldn't be a mother. Not being able to have a successful pregnancy without medical intervention is going against your body, nature, and God. If you do that, fine, just don't stand on your soapbox and say you "leave having children up to God." You're not. You're making sure yourself that you live to have children you wouldn't have had without medical intervention.
Delete8:45 We are not talking about the balm of Gilead. This is someone intervening for a genetic condition, in order to have children. Where does the Bible say to change your genetic conditions?
DeleteThis is very confusing to me and it seems to others too. I thought everything is Gods will?
ReplyDeleteCARLIN PLEASE TAKE GOOD CARE OF U, PUT YOUR FEET UP, N I LOVE U LIKE A SISTER U 5
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