Hi Donna~
I just read your reply to Stacey. I wanted to tell you that I am
sorry for the loss of our precious Devan. I have read so many
stories of loss on this board, and I am always amazed at the courage
and strength of all of the mothers who have suffered a loss.
I started this board after my abruption in May of '99. I had a c-
section at 34 weeks due to PA, but I was one of the lucky ones and
my daughter survived. I went on-line to find out more about PA and
that is when I decided to create my own group. I was so glad to
read that this group has helped you. It is always my hope that we
can support each other and be there for each other.

love,
Michelle B.
--- In placentaabruption@yahoogroups.com, Donna Dorsey
<momjay2003@y...> wrote:
> I am so sorry for your loss. I lost my son Devan Christopher at
31 weeks 3/20/04. Know that what you are feeling, whatever it is,
is probably what the other people in this group have felt at one
time or another also. You are so blessed to have had your child
with you for some time in your stomach, and you have other beautiful
children to enjoy. I am so glad you had a ceremony against others
thoughts. I think Devan's service (he was 4lbs 13 oz) was the most
difficult thing I have had to do, but so necessary to get me to the
next step in the grieving process.
>
> I found this group to be very helpful to me (after I read other
emails for weeks). Take care of yourself.
>
> 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
>
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