Friends of the family (Mark, Jill and daughter Savannah) just lost an 8 1/2 month old child in utero Thursday-Friday. The funeral is this afternoon. The unborn child was strangled by getting the umbilical cord wrapped around its neck. My brother and sister-in-law lost a child this very same way about 12 years ago. It is an awful burden. Life is precious and precarious... ++++
Isn't it amazing how the joining of 2 cells grows into an entire life form, and how rolling to the left instead of the right can take that life form away before it gets brought into the world? +
My oldest daughter now 5, was born with the cord around her neck, and she was blue...I was very scared especially when she didn't cry coming out, plus the labor was long. I remember the Doctor looking at me slightly nervously saying "I think, I'll cut the cord"...(My youngest daughter came out in record time, no problems...crying almost right away) I didn't realize before that birth seems to be so iffy...It is really scary. My prayers are with the family... +
They are in my thoughts. My wife and I lost one of our triplets that way. The difficulty lies in the asking of questions like "could we have done something different to prevent this?" or "are we being punished for something?" The answer to both those questions is absolutely not.
That happened to my second cousin. Apparently these things happen sometimes... nobody is to blame, but it's still awful. Hard for the parents, I imagine - you're expecting a baby, everybody hears about it and sees it, and then you have to go and explain this to everyone over and over again. +
It must suck to have carried the child for 9 months, with all of the anticipation and hardship, only to lose it by a freak occurance like this. The family can only take solace in the fact that no one is to blame. +
Sorry to hear that.. I hope at some point there is a way to prevent this from happening, not sure how though
That would be great, but I can't forsee that unless you are already in the hospital-- so that they can do an emergency C-section to save the baby's life. The problem is that it only takes a few minutes without oxygen to induce death. It takes a lot longer than that to do a nerve block that would allow the surgery. I'm really bummed about this. We were just at their house two weeks ago for Savannah's third birthday party; she was so excited about having a baby in the house. I tried to explain it to my girls (3 and 5) this afternoon. I'm not sure how much it sank in. We'll see what kind of questions they ask in the coming days.
I'm really sorry to hear this. + It's pretty hard to determine and prevent this from happening. But the only right solution is to get a check up as much as possible with ultrasound(don't know how much that would help). I didnt know about this SADS ( sudden antenatal death syndrome) but its something I'lll past it on to people that I know who are pregnant and be aware about it.
My son, 5 in Nov., was born by emergency c-section due to the cord around his neck 3 times... he made it, but the odds weren't good for a while there... It is a very common occurance. We had no clue this was the case with multiple trips to the doctor and ultrasounds... When we were expected our daughter, they practically made us go to the UTMB med center in Galveston "high risk" clinic every 2 weeks just to be safe... Very sorry to hear this had to end this way. Praying for the family... +
I am really shocked at how common this risk seems. Look at all the people here who have had personal experience with it...
Wishing your friends the best Giddy. Though many of us (it seems ) have experienced something similar, it's so impossible to know exactly what your friends are going through.
gidd.. yeah I know it would be about impossible to prevent.. it's a shame that we can cure all kinds of diseases, but the things that seem so less complicated we cant
