Pregnancy After Traumatic Micro Preemie Birth
In case my birth story in my other blog was too long to read... When I scan social media and the various blogs hosted online, I see many women’s accounts of losing a baby And then having what is referred to as a “rainbow baby”- A pregnancy and birth after loss. They describe, in detail, the anxiety and emotion That goes into the experience. While I see some accounts of pregnancies after a traumatic live micro preemie birth, I don’t see as many. That is why I have decided to talk about how that scenario Affected me when I had baby number four. On May 1, 2022, so early in the morning that my husband And two sons were not awake yet, I gave birth to my third son at an inner-city Jacksonville hospital. It happened so fast that there was not even time For my husband to get there, even if he had been awake. The shocking fact was that my third son was not due Until August 21. He was 16 weeks early, and only 1 lb, 5 oz. He was born because one week earlier, my wate...