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TO EVERY MOM OUT THERE and MOMS TTC (MAYBE KINDA SCARY OR TRAUMATIC)
- Sep 27, 2009 at 12:34 AM
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today I just got the worse news that anyone can get.. but I have to give you background first to fully understand
I worked at a retail store and met a really great girl named Ashley, we talked and found out we had a lot in common like our age and our love of country music and instantly became friends.. Ashley had a fiance named John and they had been trying to conceive for a while. well I got pregnant around December 2008 and found out in January. Ashley was excited for me but disappointed that she hadn't conceived a miracle of her own. Well around St. Patrick's Day in March I was given the exciting news that John and Ashley were expecting and she was due around October 24 near my birthday which is the 26.. Well we kept our friendship even though I left the company.. She had a few complications and was put on limited activities and if things still got worse she was going to be put on bed rest. When I talked to her last week everything was going great. Her daughter was developing normally.
Today I got a phone call from our manager at the retail store we worked at.. I answered the phone and he asked to speak to my mom.. she sat me down when they finished their conversation and told me that Ashley had died and that's all that the manager knew..
after calling a mutual friend of ours I found out what exactly happened..
she went to the hospital because she was having pain in her back and I don't know exactly where she was sitting whether it was in a waiting room or in an examining room but her head just slumped to the side and she turned purple. They took her daughter by emergency c-section and she was 36 weeks today and she is from what they can tell so far healthy and a happy baby. The Aorta valve which returns blood from your heart to the rest of your body had burst and instantly killed her.
Ashley wanted nothing more than to have a baby. She would have been a great mom and it breaks my heart to know that she will never get to hold her little one in her arms or hear her cry or talk or to see her walk or the little things that some of us take for granted or even complain about.
I just wanted to tell all moms to enjoy every second you get with your child(ren) because you never know what will happen.
this is not meant to scare anyone because things do happen that are unexplainable it is just meant to inform and for me to share my experience..
Comments:
I am so sorry. That seems so unfair. My heart is with you, Ashley's husband, and the beautiful little girl who will grow up without the mother who wanted her so badly.
Wow that's incredibly traumatic to those TTC, I would put a warning at the top, if you don't mind.
I appreciate your post, thank you for sharing. I hope that that poor woman is able to rest in peace.
Wow! So sorry for your loss!
ethans_momma06.. thank you and I did add that.. I am just still in shock because it was just so unexpected..
I lost a pregnant friend several years ago, unfortunately she was only 20 weeks so the baby could not be saved. It was a sudden and unexplained death...one of those freak things that happens. She left behind a fiance and 3yr old little girl. I am sorry for your loss ((hugs)))
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