A mom who risked her life to bear a child with spina bifida looks back on a road “riddled with uncertainty” and knows she made the right choice—in the face of pressure, and ridicule from doctors urging her to abort. Her beloved baby girl, now 1 year old, continues to defy the odds. Surviving heart failure after giving birth to her third baby, then-25-year-old Victoria Pampanin Reyes was warned that she couldn’t bear children again: the risk of relapse was too high. It took Victoria two years to recover. “I was in remission,” she wrote, sharing her story with Love What Matters. “I had the second chance at life that I begged, pleaded, and went to war for.” Yet the brief calm heralded another storm when Victoria fell pregnant again. “I felt as though I had swallowed a brick,” she shared. “I had promised myself if I ever got pregnant …