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37 weeks pregnant and found out yesterday that our baby has died

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CheeseandGherkins · 03/12/2010 12:17

I'm still totally in shock, as is DH, our little girl has died. I hadn't felt movements since late on Wednesday and when I went in on Thursday they couldn't find a heartbeat with doppler. Sent straight for a scan and there was no heartbeat.

I already have 3 dcs who are so upset but it was DH's first baby.

I have to go in today, in a few hours, for a tablet to start things off but I can come home after an hour apparently and then go back 24 hours or so later (if nothing happens) to start inducement properly.

Does anyone have any experience of this? I'm scared of being induced, which sounds stupid under the circumstances but there it is. How long will it take? First 3 labours were fast, 3 and a half, 3 hours and just over an hour.

I still keep expecting to feel her move but of course she won't. Feels so surreal and that it can't be happening but it is. I was due on Dec 23rd.

I don't know what to do.

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MotherOfMadHouse · 13/01/2011 07:04

Cheese, I've just read this thread and I'm so sorry that your beautiful baby girl has died. You just wrote that you wish you had held her- I can understand you going through all the what ifs and regrets but you did hold her, cuddle her and love her when she was inside you for her short life and she will know that and feel that and know what a wonderful, caring, loving mummy she has. Sending you much love and thoughts. The nighttime is horrible to feel so sad on your own.

With love x

glovesoflove · 13/01/2011 15:05

Hi C&G, have you been in touch with SANDS to see if they can get you some RL support?

Also, you can phone Samaritans any time, day or night - they are there to provide a friendly ear for people in distress, and I think they would be great if you are worried you may SH - lots of people find that calling Sams can help them through the "desperate" feeling and get them a bit calmer.

Samaritans - 08457 90 90 90

Take care everybody xx

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maxpower · 13/01/2011 21:37

C&G I was just thinking of you and your family. The picture of Scarlett is lovely.

CheeseandGherkins · 14/01/2011 00:34

Thanks again, feeling a bit better today so gone to lie down a d rest at least, using phone to type. I'm ok and getting there I think. Last night was a bad one and I know i need to avoid any more troubles as I think that made things so much worse...

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expatinscotland · 14/01/2011 00:36

I hope you can get some rest, Cheese.

knottyhair · 14/01/2011 08:07

Thinking of you and your family, Cheese xx

InnocentRedhead · 15/01/2011 01:06

Hello,

I have being offline for a few days and i am just checking in to see how you are today?

Saw your post from last night; you do have your up and down days. There will be days when you cannot see the light for the darkness. Then again there will be the times when you smile with joy at the memories; when you felt her for the first time, when you found out you were pregnant with her. It is not how it should be but you find there is some solace in these thoughts.

The days you are going through at the moment are dark, yet you will always have your angel Scarlett watching over you.

I hope you rested well and you and your family are helping each other through such a dark time

My thoughts and prayers are with you xx

ChippingIn · 15/01/2011 02:31

Cheese - xxooxx

What my Dad was saying is that 'Life isn't fair', that being a 'good' person doesn't mean shit wont happen... that we don't always get what we deserve (at the time my Grandad always being there, for you to have Scarlett with you now). That it's not about doing all the right things and thus your life being as it should.

IF only - my love, who knows? We all have our If only's - I think the best way to describe what happens is that they are still there - you just bring them out to look at them less and less...

I'm sorry, in all of this I'd forgotten how poorly DH is - it's crap isn't it.

As for his Brother - words fail me really. I can't understand any of what he has (or rather hasn't) done. The fact that he hasn't responded to DH's email just speaks volumes.

Facebook (work of the devil on a good day that thing!) you post what you like to your DH, it's none of her business and if the shoe fits, BIL should bloody well wear it. She's getting shirty at quite the wrong person - there is no excuse for BIL's complete lack of support. Both of them need telling and I'm volunterring if you are looking for someone to do it for you.

As for DS having turned 4 on Wednesday - where does the time go? 4?? He seems to be thinking about it a lot - I think it's good to talk to him about what he thinks/feels as much as you can bear to, make sure he's not harbouring any strange 4 year old ideas (like DH taking him to heaven if he's naughty).

The ache - the feeling that you just want them back, that you want to wake up from this nightmare and it be just that, a nightmare... we all know how you feel.

Having another baby - who knows. You are still quite young so I don't think your age will be a problem. I guess it depends why you MC in the past. You carried Scarlett to term - there's no reason to think you couldn't do it again.

Do you know if they have the results back for Scarlett yet? I think it will help you to put your mind at rest about being able to carry another baby once you have seen those.

I wish you had held her too, but at the time it wasn't right for you, but as MotherOfMadHouse said - you did hold her, you held her inside of you for months, holding her, loving her. Try to remember the good bits as well :)

Keep trying to eat a bit and drinking (non alcoholic).

It's hard to believe it right now, but in time the constant processing of it all does ease, it very very gradually gets replaced by other thoughts and although you miss them as much and the grief is still there it stops being all consuming - even though in another way you don't want it to.

The price we pay for love, is grief x

InnocentRedhead · 15/01/2011 02:45

Great advice Chip!

And lovely words, The price we pay for love, is grief. Unfortunately this is all too true.

xx

CheeseandGherkins · 16/01/2011 18:38

Innocent I'm still feeling quite up and down but I do feel a bit better. Sleeping is really hard, I sleep an hour or two and then have to get up or I don't sleep at all but lie there. At least it's rest though.

ChippingIn your Dad was right. Still heard nothing from dh's brother, I'm astounded as dh hasn't been coping very well and needs someone to talk to as well. He doesn't want to "burden" me with any more, I know but he says he's fine, he isn't. The time he really needs his brother and he's done nothing at all. I'm so tempted to send him a text, saying what; I don't know, but something. I can't make him care but surely he must?!

So frustrated at the whole situation with them as it's not something needed now at all, i doubt he's even given us a passing thought let alone his niece :( I really don't know what to think about dh's mum either, I can't see how she can think the sun shines out of bil's arse because he sent one text but yet I get crap for posting my feelings on dh's facebook. It's beyond me. I've not been rude at all either. I just wish something would get through to bil but if he hasn't cared by now will he ever? What I really want to do is tell him exactly how it's been over the past few weeks, the horror of everything and having to bury our daughter; seeing dh cry but worst of all wasting his energy on being upset about his brother :( I want him to feel some of that pain but I just don't think he would. Poor dh is coping for the both of us but I don't think he will be able to for long and I don't know how to help.

I've spoken to the dc's about it lots and let them know they can talk if they want to about Scarlett and their feelings, which they have done, I'll be sure to keep talking to ds2 just in case as well.

I think pcos was the reason I mc before, I had initial tests which came back clear but then I was pregnant again so didn't have anymore done.

I've been waiting for a letter from the hospital about Scarlett, nothing has come yet so I'll have to chase it up, I thought the results would have been back by now.

I needed more time but I didn't have it, things seems to take a while to settle in and hit me tbh and at the time I just couldn't deal with it all.

Eating has been a little better, not much though still but at least something.

Sometimes I just feel numb, feeling okish at the moment though. Thank you all so much, it helps a lot.

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Minione · 16/01/2011 20:16

Hi Cheese, just wanted to see how you are, I'm so sorry that your bil is being a complete arse. Scarlett is beautiful and again I'm so sorry for your loss. So much of what you write is oh so familiar. I have constant 'what ifs' about Malachy. 7 months down the line I know I couldn't have done anything but I still have those moments. I still think how unfair it is nad when I do have bad days 'Its not fair' is often what I'll say.

I've also had a miscarriage since and one previously and am having blood tests at the recurrent miscarriage clinic tomorrow. I have no children (DH has a son from a previous relationship) and have always wanted to be a mum, I'm 32 in a month so I feel like time is ticking.

Glad to hear that you are eating a bit better. As others have said drinking can make you feel worse although how can you actually feel any worse? If you feel up to it please join us on the bereaved parents thread, to rant, cry, talk , whatever. Take care x

CheeseandGherkins · 19/01/2011 03:05

Minione, I actually sent him a text but he replied saying that dh could call him if he wants Hmm I don't know what to say to that, also that he thought the mail dh sent was "over the top" don't know what to think anymore. I want to try and sort things out between them but I sway so much in what I think. One minute I want to and the next I think he should be contacting dh himself. Plus I've only met him a couple of times, he did live about 5ish hours away from us but is now living an hour away (which also makes me wonder why he hasn't visited). I could scream I really could, I just don't know what to do.

I want dh to feel better, and I think bil talking to him could help with that. I don't know what to do, I think maybe I should try to arrange things and just leave it as that, dh needs someone too but he just can't ask or do it.

I think "It's not fair!" so much, so sorry you're going through the same. I still can't believe it, I half believe I'll wake up and feel her inside me and me ready to give birth. It's so wrong. I can still feel her movements, she moved so much, all the time. I should have known, god, sigh. Sorry I'm just saying what I'm thinking right now.

I will join the bereaved parents thread, I've thought about it as I saw it linked before but I just couldn't, I'll try.

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CheeseandGherkins · 20/01/2011 00:47

:( bad day today

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ben5 · 20/01/2011 01:38

a hug for you. there is nothing else i can add to all the threads on here, but that we are thinking of you to. tkae care of yourself today

Concordia · 20/01/2011 02:07

just to say, thinking of you and scarlett
it wasn't your fault, it wasn't at all
it will get a bit better, but you won't ever love her any less
try to get some rest, food, exercise adn time with the DCs
hugs
x

Concordia · 20/01/2011 02:08

and ben5 i love your name

CheeseandGherkins · 20/01/2011 07:21

Can't sleep or eat, I hate these days, not eaten at all today or yesterday really and not slept today. It's all shit

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TLCDoula · 22/01/2011 13:56

I'be just caught up withe all of this thread and just wanted to say how very sorry I am to hear of the loss of your beautiful little girl. :(

The poems are absolutely beautiful, especially What Makes a Mother.

I'm so sorry you aren't getting the support from DH's family, my advice would be don't waste your time feeling bitter, use your energies on people who are there for you and support you. Some people just don't know what to do or say in these situations so they cruelly back off and avoid any potentially awkward situations.

Have you thought about having some counselling or at least talking to somebody at SANDS, it may help your grief a little to talk and let out your feelings and your fears.

Be kind to yourself,

x

CheeseandGherkins · 23/01/2011 23:35

I love those poems too, they're beautiful.

Even through this I've still been trying to work it out with his family, I've spent so much energy thinking the past few days that I haven't been able to sleep. Spoke to sil about his brother and I kind of understand now, everyone has issues and he has had his fair share of shit too, as has dh.

Had a message from mil after she made a post saying she wishes some people would be more sensitive. I still haven't been able to reply as i'm trying to form what words to say, what can I say to that? I gave birth almost 7 weeks ago now to my dead, full term daughter and I'm being insensitive? ! To make that worse her friend replied saying that the insensitive people need to grow up. I'm speachless. Well, almost, I can't stop forming replies in my head, hence why I haven't responded to her mail yet in a few days. I dont want to be hasty and cause more shit, I don't have the energy. I just don't know what to say to that.

She said she's sorry she upset me but... always a but isn't there. She thinks I said nasty things about her son, but I didn't at all and also I'd feel the same if someone said that about my dc's apparently. Wrong again.

Sigh.

I just don't need this. Sil is lovely, absolutely lovely and so understanding, I sent bil a message too explaining why etc. I can't deal with it all though.

So bloody hard right now without this on my mind, and I know how I work, I need to reply before I can rest my mind but I can't reply as I need to make what I say right.

I've changed a lot after this, the old me would have replied already and not taken any shit but now I just feel defeated, I can't think of any other word to describe it.

Had such a bad few days, I think because of all this, Friday was worse though, really broke down and couldn't stop sobbing. Poor dh too, hurts him too :(

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thecaptaincrocfamily · 23/01/2011 23:57

I'm sorry, I have only just read this. There are no words to make it better. I can only hope and will you to have strength Sad My thoughts are with you and your family. Such a sad time for you all xxxxx It happened to my cousin so I have some experience but it wasn't me. Sad RIP Baby CheeseandGerkin xxx Her soul will be looking down and her bright star still shines.

CheeseandGherkins · 26/01/2011 05:11

Thank you. I look at the photos of her and I think of her as a little star and angel, I need to visit her grave again. I know I'll feel worse afterwards but that's part and parcel I guess. Had a dream she was alive and I was holding her, I woke and for a second it was real :( less than a second. God I wish she were here and alive now. I still can't fully believe that it happened to me, I didnt think I deserved any more shit; been through enough

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Jacksmama · 26/01/2011 05:32

C&G - I'm sorry, I dropped off this thread for a while because I thought you were only posting on your antenatal thread and then we were away on holiday; just saw this... I wish I had something helpful to add but I don't know that I do. I just feel so, so terrible for you. This isn't fair, none of it is, and the added crap from your BIL and MIL is just completely unjustifiable. Whatever their issues are, you and your DH need comfort, and it seems they're doing their best to provide the opposite. Twunts.
I wish I could shake them or knock their heads together, and then give you and your family the biggest ((((((HUG))))))) ever.
Thinking of you. :(
xxJM

InnocentRedhead · 26/01/2011 05:37

Hey, just to let you know i'm still here lurking, but having a bad time of it recently so haven't posted much for a week. Just letting you know i'm still here and only a PM away xxxx

Love and strength to you. Please be kind xx

CheeseandGherkins · 26/01/2011 05:51

Innocent I'll pm you

Jacksmama - I'm being insensitive apparentely, i really don't know how to respond to that. To make it worse mil friend then commented on mil saying that the insensitive people need to grow up. I guess that is me then.

Is that me or what? I don't know what is right or wrong anymore. I just don't have the energy to do anymore

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