“It was hell. My doctor removed it and sent me on my way. And then I was alone.”
‘My husband and I decided during his deployment we would try to get pregnant as soon as he got home. I got pregnant the first try. But, I wasn’t supposed to mother this baby.’
‘Baby, when I hear you say you’re pregnant what I actually hear is ‘life destroyed.’ He was right. The Universe had been playing this cruel joke on me for 4 years.’
“Surprisingly, the doctor pulled me into her arms, ignoring professionalism and boundaries, and held me. She whispered in my ear, ‘I heard you talking in the change room. I know how badly you wanted this. Don’t give up yet.’”
‘Baby Coehn was taken to Heaven too soon by Trisomy 18. His momma labored for 33 hours before getting to hold her son.’
“There is no way you can prepare yourself to bury your child. We both were trying to keep it together, but it was obvious we were falling apart.”
A letter to my son one year after his absent heartbeat breathed life into mine
“No matter how many bad days I have without you in my arms, it is another day closer to being together again.”
‘There is no heartbeat’: Mom turns devastating stillbirth at full term into opportunity to make a difference for ‘other parents who will walk this road’
“Over and over I sobbed into Tony’s neck, ‘I’m so sorry.’ I carried her. I should have kept her safe. What did I do wrong? Did I sleep on my back? Maybe I shouldn’t have eaten that lunchmeat. Why didn’t I make my doctor induce that morning?”
‘I am 1 in 4’: Nine years after miscarriage, mom takes heart wrenching self-portrait releasing emotions
“If I didn’t give my loss a face in that moment, I never would.”
Mom says she’s had an epidural needle stuck in her spine for 14 years: ‘It’s devastating. It’s absolutely wrong’
“I’ve never seen a piece of needle that’s broken off and left in someone’s spine. Never seen it. Never heard of it. It’s outrageous,” her attorney said.
‘I would have taken her place if I could’: Husband’s heartbreaking account of their ‘devastating’ infertility battle
“I felt helpless.”