My Story
The evening of October 22nd, I started feeling a lot of pain in my left side and of course my husband being the worry wart that he is wanted me into Emergency so they could see what was wrong. I spend 2.5 hours before anyone could see me, and only to be send home 20 minutes later with no problems. The nurses aid looked with the doppler for Rebecca's heart beat and couldn't find one. I know a week or so ago my own doctor, Dr. Mullan had trouble finding it as well, so I didn't worry. They took the ultrasound machine in and found the heart beat with the help of the machine. Rebecca's heartbeat was 120, which was concidered normal. I had seen it as high as 160 but never lower then 120. Ryan (my husband) at this point, was convinced? we were expecting a male becuase of the low heart beat. We went home being told that the pain I felt was just my uterus stretching and changing.
October 28th, I had an appointment with my gyno for the first time. I had been seeing my family doctor all the other times with my pregnancy. He could not find the heartbeat, which I found to be normal again at this point, he wanted me to go the next day to see the 7th floor of the IWK to get it looked at.
Coming home, I thought when Ryan gets home, I want to go. When I arrived home, Ryan had gotten off work early so we went to the hospital. I had the worst feeling in my belly but also a good feeling, that perhaps they would tell me the sex of our baby. (they don't tell the sex anymore or give ultrasound pictures)
From the very minute I was hooked up to that machine I knew it was not good. The nurse grew concerned and told me she couldn't find a heartbeat. They measured the fetus and told me the body had stopped growing nearly 2 weeks ago. There I was 27 weeks and 1 day gestation looking at a ultrasound laying still and my eyes just started to flow. I had to listen to the nurse then tell me, the baby's gone. I never asked the sex nor did they tell me. That thought never even entered into my mind.
MY STORY CONTINUED
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