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Originally Posted by BipolaRNurse
I'm sure you're already gone to the hospital, but I wanted to put my two cents' worth in and give you a virtual ((((HUG)))). I am SO sorry you're in so much pain....I lost a newborn daughter 29 years ago and at the time, I thought that was the end of my life. I get sick even thinking about what it would be like to lose a grown child. My sympathies and prayers are with you, hon.  |
Oh, it is horrible whatever the child's age is! To go through the ups and down of pregnancy and all the anticipation and the pain of labor and lose your daughter is heartbreaking. I did not know you had such a loss 29 years ago.
... I had an older colleague in Texas, Marianna. She has an older son and a younger daughter, Nina. Both adults now. Both born in Moldova before the family moved to Texas. Marianna told me that before Nina, Marianna was pregnant with twins. The prenatal care through the state was horrendous. Marianna lost one twin in utero and was pleading with the doctors to induce labor to save the other twin. They refused. She lost the other twin. The doctors would not even do a C-section but insisted on waiting until she would go in labor by herself.
She went through all the labor pain knowing that the children would be stillborn! I just cannot imagine myself having this experience. But she is a strong woman - she buried the twins, grieved, recovered, got pregnant again, bribed her way through the prenatal care to get decent treatment, and delivered Nina being over 40.