So yesterday morning I went for a repeat blood test and asked my midwife to listen in with the doppler. She couldn't find the baby's heartbeat and asked me to come back later after a large sugary drink.
Went again in the afternoon, still no luck, so she sent me up to the labour suite to get checked out. Nobody was worried and assumed baby was hiding towards the back.
Arrived at labour suite and a midwife there couldn't get the heartbeat either so asked the consultant to come and do a scan. The young registrar came and scanned and zoomed in and looked and stared at this perfect little baby and looked some more and eventually the consultant came in and said there was no heartbeat.
He said the baby died recently, in the last day or so as the fluid levels were exactly as they should be etc. I need to go in tomorrow and have the baby. We were given a leaflet about post mortum testing and funerals etc.
Our options are private funeral/cremation or the hospital do a communal cremation. I don't like the sound of that at all but I don't know where to start with any of this.
If anyone has gone through this, please hold my hand, share your knowledge and please tell me what I need to do. I don't know where to start.