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Mother makes ultimate sacrifice for her unborn daughter

A California mother decides to put the life of her unborn daughter before her own. Ashley Bridges found out she had bone cancer when she was 10 weeks pregnant, ...
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A California mother decides to put the life of her unborn daughter before her own.

Ashley Bridges found out she had bone cancer when she was 10 weeks pregnant, but refused to start treatment that would have meant terminating her pregnancy.

Doctors recommended she start chemotherapy immediately, but Bridges told CBSLA, “There’s no way I could kill a healthy baby because I’m sick.”

At eight months pregnant Bridges was told that her cancer had spread and she needed to deliver immediately to start treatment.

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“That’s basically when they told me that it was terminal,” she said.

Bridges delivered her daughter, Paisley, and began multiple round of chemotherapy -but was still given less than a year to live.

“The thought that I’m not going to see her grow up is really hard,” said Bridges with tears in her eyes.

Bridges says she has no regrets and, “Maybe I’m not supposed to be here and she is.”

Friends and family have set up a GiveForward page for Bridges’ family.

Here’s the latest update from Bridges:

“Just got the call from my doctor about my recent scans … Im crying im so happy , it hasn’t spread to my legs like we thought and the ones in my head haven’t grown and the one that was causing me to blind seems completely gone .The ones in my hips and lower spine have grown so little there really isn’t a difference !!!! Thank GOD”

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