Brianna Rawlings, an 18-year-old pregnant teenager, was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive blood cancer, NK cell leukemia, at 17 weeks pregnant.
Doctors initially dismissed her symptoms as pregnancy-related, but once diagnosed, Brianna faced a heartbreaking choice: undergo treatment that could save her life but risk her baby’s, or delay treatment and focus on delivering her son. She chose to give birth to her son, Kyden, who lived for just 12 days before succumbing to prematurity.