Just hours after I read this post on my friend Sher's blog, we heard another piece of bad news.
One of Kisu's colleagues I and his wife lost their baby at 32 weeks. That's 4 weeks behind me.
2 weeks ago, I met I's wife, E for the first time at T's baby girl's one month party. T is another colleague of Kisu's.
T, E and I were all expecting girls. All firstborns.
As E and I were only weeks apart, we started chatting and comparing tummy size, etc. She looked happy as any mum-to-be would.
A week ago, Kisu told me that a routine checkup detected the presence of a tumour in their baby. And there was nothing to be done except wait for the baby to be born before operating.
Yesterday we received an email from I.
E's waters had broken on Saturday. They tried to stabilise her with drugs but eventually had to do an emergency C-section on Sunday.
The baby was sent to the neonatal ICU, but the tumour was too large and their baby didn't make it.
I was so shocked, then I couldn't help but cry. This came so late in the pregnancy - usually you'd think that once you're past the first trimester things would have stabilised.
We were so close in due date - they would have, just like us, bought all their baby things, set up the nursery, and now, they have nothing.
E is left to recover from her C-sec wound with no baby to go home with. Her husband will have to register his baby girl's birth, then death.
I felt too, like Sher, that I took my pregnancy for granted.
3 comments:
oh my how does a baby get a tumour?? my heart goes out to your friend...
it's called a teratoma. yeah, me too, but i'm probably the last person they want to hear from right now.
when i was pregnant, i have a friend who was also pregnant and our due dates are like one week apart. we were both supposed to deilver at TMC and i even joked to my friend that we might end up next to each other in the ward.
i got some hospital rates info and i was so eager to share with her. posted it out to her and called her up to ask if she rec'd them only to hear her broke down in tears to tell me she has miscarried. she was 5 mths + pregnant at that time.
i cannot imagine something like this happening to an expecting mother.
most ppl assume miscarriage only occur in the 1st trimester so they become complacent from 2nd trimester onwards.
should be careful from beginning of pregnancy till the end.
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