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"Jenni Lake gave birth to a baby boy the month before her 18th birthday, shortly after she lost her battle with cancer. The Associated Press describes the baby, born Chad Michael, as having rosy cheeks and being a healthy weight. It&amp;#039;s hard to believe that the mother, at 5 feet and 4 inches tall, weighed only 108 pounds during the full term of her pregnancy due to her illness: Last year Jenni was diagnosed with stage-three astrocytoma; a type of brain tumor. There were three tumors on her brain and three on her spine. Her case was rare because the cancer had spread with no symptoms. From the start of treatment, she was told that she might never have children, her mother, Diana Phillips, said. The radiation and chemotherapy would essentially make her sterile; but it didn&amp;#039;t: Jenni became pregnant with her boyfriend Nathan. &amp;quot;We were told that she couldn&amp;#039;t get pregnant, so we didn&amp;#039;t worry about it,&amp;quot; said Nathan, 19. Nathan and Jenni started dating a couple of weeks before she received her diagnosis. Jenni was determined to keep the baby, but her doctor said she could not continue treatments if she was pregnant. Jenni had to make a decision to both terminate the pregnancy and continue the treatments, or forgo the treatments, knowing that it potentially could continue to grow. One day after the birth of her son, her family learned that Jenni&amp;#039;s decision to forgo treatment to carry the baby meant fatal repercussions-nothing could be done to save her. Jenni never showed regret for her decision, not in the final weeks of her pregnancy as she grew weaker, and not even when she started to lose her vision as the cancer took its course, her family said. Jenny Lake passed away 12 days after giving birth. Her family and friends insist her legacy is centered is sacrifice, not tragedy. - Jennifer Fiorentino, WomansDay.com Intern  Follow Jenni&amp;#039;s Journey here "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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