Liam was born 15 weeks early.
Allard was 33 when doctors told her she had liver cancer and to begin treatment she would have to terminate her pregnancy. She decided to allow for the pregnancy to continue and then attempt treatment.
“Lorraine was so brave. I can’t begin to describe how brave she was,” 34-year-old Mr Allard said.
“She knew all too well she didn’t have long to live. So she put little Liam’s life before her own.”
She had felt uncomfortable during this pregnancy. The cancer was discovered when doctors were checking to see if Lorraine had gallstones. The search found two secondary tumours on her liver, one of them 13cm in diameter.
The primary cancer was never found although doctors believed that there was a bowel tumor. Allard heard the hard words, very little hope for survival. With that said she opted to give life and hope for the best.
She lived long enough to give birth to son Liam on November 18 in Norfolk. Liam weighed just 1lb 11oz at birth and is still in hospital gaining the weight he needs to survival outside it’s walls. His Mum’s wish to see him home was unable to be fulfilled.
When Liam does come home he will join his siblings Leah, 10, Amy, eight, and Courtney, 20 months.
The Allards were high school sweethearts and had been together for seventeen years.
Allard honestly had little chance to survive, but earlier treatment may have given her a bit more time. But who is to say if that would have happened.
Lorraine Allard will be buried on Feb 4 at the church she and Martyn were married in St Olaves.
Her father, Tom Berry remembered his daughter, “I was overwhelmed by the way she took it. Lorraine has always been a superb girl and a grafter who did not want to rely on anybody.
“She lived for her husband and her children. She was a big personality with a heart of gold.”
