‘I live in hope’
Karen Bahia, 34, lives in Coventry with her three-year-old son Harvey, and her parents Jusber, 59, and Paramjit, 61.
Holding my newborn in my arms, I felt terrified. It was January 2019, and Harvey had been diagnosed with kidney failure. At my 20-week scan, doctors had warned his kidneys were growing at an alarming rate. I’d been advised to have an abortion, but I’d been adamant. ‘I want to give him a chance,’ I’d said.
In the womb, he was diagnosed with posterior urethral valves, a condition found in boys that meant there was