God bless them and their daughter.

"A former NFL player and his wife are working to raise awareness about anencephaly with a very personal story.

Olivia Rodriguez, wife of former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Evan Rodriguez, chose to keep her unborn child even after learning that Layla Sky, as the couple named her, will be born with the severe birth defect that affects a baby’s brain and skull.

ABC Action News in Tampa Bay reported:

Doctors told the couple Layla Sky will likely be born missing parts of her brain and skull and could only live for days, if not hours.

“From that moment on, I’m like what can we do? He was like, either terminate it or move forward with the process,” Evan said about speaking to doctors.

Evan and Olivia said they pray together each morning, but it was in these times while making this decision that they leaned on their faith more than ever before. Olivia prayed, “God, show me what it is that you want to do through all of this. What’s the good to come out of it?”

After about a week of wrestling with the decision, Evan and Olivia came to a shared decision to move forward with the pregnancy. “We decided to continue with the process because we felt like who are we to determine a baby’s life. So, we are going to leave it in God’s hands,” Evan said.

https://www.foramerica.org/2015/08/forme...this-discovery/