A Voice in Her Dream

Olympic strength!   (Pictogram by Thadius856) 

Barbara Higgins wasn’t really planning to give birth at age 57.  Yet shortly after her 13-year-old daughter died “from an undetected brain tumor,” Higgins began having unusual dreams.

There was a voice calling her “Mommy,” along with a consistent feeling that she was meant to have another child.  This was all so compelling that Higgins took steps to make it happen.  She and her husband began an in-vitro fertilization process.

Although some have great difficulties with IVF, Higgins found it to be “relatively easy.”  She was already in good physical health, and even lifted weights on the very day that baby Jack was born. 

To those who question the timing of all this, Higgins replies:  “Who knows how I’ll be in 10 years, but who knows how you’ll be in 10 years?  And why should Jack not get to be alive just because I’m old?” 

Resources

https://www.today.com/parents/meet-barbara-higgins-new-hampshire-woman-who-gave-birth-57-t213029