 when she was pregnant with her twinsCredit: Dawn Voris Dawn's daughter Mikayla as a babyCredit: Dawn Voris Two decades ago Dawn Voris, 60, from Indiana, made an agonising choice that has lives with her every day since. Faced with financial woes, discovering that she was expecting twins was not the joy that many mums experience for healthcare fraud investigator Dawn. Speaking exclusively to Fabulous, she says: 'Hearing the sonographer say, 'you're expecting twins' I went into shock, panic flooding through me. 'Looking at my husband Clint I knew the same thought was running through his mind. How could we possibly afford two babies?' Money was incredibly tight in early 2000 for Dawn, and husband Clint, both then 37. 'We were struggling to pay our bills,' she says. 'Both of our jobs were at risk of redundancy and our families were already helping us out with money. 'We were keeping our heads above water, but it was a very hard time.' Discovering she was pregnant in June 2000 the couple were happy, but the financial reality of becoming parents was never far from their minds. 'I was struggling with anxiety even before the sonographer began my 12-week scan,' Dawn recalls. FABULOUS BINGO: Get a £20 bonus & 30 free spins when you spend £10 today 'Hearing that there were two babies on the way was completely overwhelming. What on what on earth were we going to do?' As the days turned into weeks Dawn and Clint talked of little else. 'I felt such a lot of love for the babies but knew I couldn't give them the life that they deserved,' she admits. 'I couldn't eat properly, sleep or focus on work, all the while these two babies were growing inside me. 'We didn't tell anyone that I was expe){kind=link}
MOST parents will agree that there is no way they could possibly choose between their children.
But one mum has revealed how she was forced to do exactly that.
Two decades ago Dawn Voris, 60, from Indiana, made an agonising choice that has lives with her every day since.
Faced with financial woes, discovering that she was expecting twins was not the joy that many mums experience for healthcare fraud investigator Dawn.
Speaking exclusively to Fabulous, she says: “Hearing the sonographer say, ‘you’re expecting twins’ I went into shock, panic flooding through me.