Stacey ~ I am so sorry for your loss. It breaks my heart to read
stories of women who have lost their babies. I can't imagine the
pain. There just doesn't seem to be enough info about PA out there,
and unfortunately, many doctors ignore or dismiss some of the
warning signs that pregnant women have.
There are others on the board who have been through the sorrow of
loosing a child -- and have all really supported each other.
I'm glad you found us and were able to share your story.
love,
Michelle B.


--- In placentaabruption@yahoogroups.com, "mom2write2000"
<mom_2_write@h...> wrote:
> I have 3 healthy beautiful children, 2 girls ages 13 and 4 and my
son
> is 7, also a stepson, age 9. My yongest daughter was born in
January
> 2000 (Miss Millenium) and I found out I was pregnant again in
> December of the same year. i was so happy and excited, I really
> wanted this baby and was so overjoyed at the thoughts of having
one
> more. I felt movement in January, which I thought was early but
> everyone is different. But things just didn't seem right. I was
not
> physically sick (I was a lucky one who had no morning sickness
with
> any of them) but just didn't feel right. I kept telling my dr
> something was wrong, but he wasn't concerned. Februaury, 2001 I
> finally convinced the dr. something was wrong, he book me for an
> ultrasound the first week of march. I spent the last week of Feb.
> pretty much on my back, my mom and bf were good about helping me
and
> doing things around the hosue and with the other kids. Sadly, the
> last day of february i start bleeding, we rushed to the hospital
were
> the doctor said the pregnancy was unsalvageable. I was sent by
> ambulance with a nurse to a bigger hospital, my bloodpressure was
> dropping pretty fast. I was put on the drip to help hurry things
> along. My son was born on March 1, 2001 at 1:40 am. They said i
was
> only 18 weeks along so my pr ovince didn't consider him a baby at
> all. I named him Colton, he was only 3 inches long and 0.3 oz,
very
> tiny but he had all the parts a boy is supposed to, just so very
> tiny. We held him and cried over him for 5 hours, i rocked him
and
> sang to him, we got 2 pictures of him and i made it very clear to
the
> staff he WAS going home with me for burial. He was laid to rest
> between his paternal grandparents. I found out later that he died
6
> or 7 weeks before i lost him, which put me at about 24 - 26 weeks
> pregnant when i delivered him. It was by far the hardest thing I
> have ever lived through. To make matters worse, a year and 1/2
> later, due to problems I had to have a partial hysterecotmy and
can't
> have any more babies. I tried at one point and could not conceive
so
> my dream of carrying and delievering one more child is out of the
> question. We have no ruled out adoption but I am not holding out
> much hope there either. Anyway, i joined this group a few months
> back and just could not deal with typing my story, so here it is,
and
> from what i understand, it could have been placental abruption
(this
> had never been medically confirmed) that made me lose my angel
boy.
> SOrry if this was too much info, i had to share and look for
support
> somewhere. My heart goes out to all of you who have lost children.
> Stacey