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What happened? My son became an angel at 22 weeks :(

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12345gl · 24/05/2019 09:03

I’m absolutely heartbroken & still in shock on Tuesday morning at 4.47 my son was born at 22 weeks 3 days he was born breathing but according to the medical team he showed no signs of fighting to live & due to being under the cut of for medical intervention there was nothing to be done other than wait for him to pass away :( It all happened so quickly I still can’t believe he’s gone from our world. I wanted to give a back story to see if anyone has had anything similar happen or to help possibly prevent anyone else going through the same hell my pregnancy was fine all the way through he was my second child after a 4 year gap between pregnancy’s I did smoke very lightly at points in the pregnancy but up until the day I gave birth he was kicking & came out breathing the only indication of anything being wrong came last week on when I started to get green vaginal discharge sometimes it would be green but then reverted to white normal discharge I had through out the pregnancy so I decided to wait over the weekend come Monday it had gone & did not appear again until the Tuesday night the night I went into labour this time it was a lot also worth mentioning before going to sleep Tuesday I had constant lower back & hip pain which I put down to my body changing to accommodate growing baby also frequently needed the toilet on Tuesday day. I woke up in a lot of pain at 2am went back to the toilet to find I was bleeding lightly & more green discharge at this point I woke my bf went to the hospital realised in the car I was in labour there was no staff available right away in maternity so waited together in a room I felt my son making his way out laying on that bed waiting a midwife came through rushed us to a delivery suite a medical team quickly came in as soon as they checked me his head came out & with one regrettable push I sent my son into the world knowing we would loose him. This post is long enough & as you can imagine hard so ending it here one last thing to mention is according to my bf the placenta looked grey/green the hospital have sent it off & put my on anti biotics as a precaution because my levels were slightly raised.

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itsnotallbbqsandshrimp · 24/05/2019 11:04

Hi op, I'm so sorry to hear this has happened. What a shock for you.

It sounds like you had an infection? Is that what the doctors mentioned?

Be kind to yourself and we're here if you need to talk. Thanks

NoBaggyPants · 24/05/2019 11:12

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Have the hospital offered a follow up appointment? If not, call them and arrange this. They should have a bereavement midwife that you can speak to.

Please know this wasn't your fault. Be kind to yourself.

gel3642 · 16/10/2023 19:28

Hi im
so so sorry for your loss, the exact heartbreaking situation has just happened to me last week at 22 weeks I gave birth to my beautiful boy who survived an hour,
did they ever establish what happened to you and your beautiful boy xx

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