Filed under: Uncategorized
i was going to post today something holiday like and Auden focused…
then i found out that an old friend of mine just lost her baby at nearly 24 weeks. she went in for her regular check up only to find that she was 3 cm dilated. then her water broke and shortly thereafter she gave birth to a still little girl. i just have no idea what to say. words are useless.
they're letting the hospital handle everything. no funeral. no name. but she is afraid that she will regret that decision.
i just don't know what to say AT ALL. i want to help, to comfort, but i'm totally at a loss. i wish i could just go over to her house and hug her but we're many hundreds of miles apart. i haven't even seen her for years.
my heart is just broken for her though. i wish i could help.
4 Comments so far
Leave a comment
exile in kidville 
I was the OB nurse for a patient who lost her baby at 19 weeks. She refused to look at him as he was born and made me take him away. I was so afraid she would regret never seeing her son. I convinced her to look at him for a moment- and she held him for hours and hours. She was so glad she did.
Comment by mrs spock December 14, 2008 @ 3:15 pmI am so sorry for her loss. I know very well that could have been me when J stopped moving.
Oh, Megan, I am so sorry. SO sorry. This so heartbreaking.
Comment by Nikole December 14, 2008 @ 6:29 pmOh, how horrible. I can only imagine the grief.
Comment by Furrow December 15, 2008 @ 10:38 amSo sad!
Comment by docgrumbles December 17, 2008 @ 4:36 pm