Friday, November 24, 2006
Bad news
Hi
This isn’t the sort of thing you really want to send in an email, but there are lots of people we want to tell, and this seems the quickest way.
Ruth and I went to Redlands hospital on Wednesday to book her in for the baby’s birth. The pregnancy was going nicely and the baby was now 16 weeks old. When the midwife tried to find the baby’s heartbeat she was unsuccessful. We weren’t too worried, as with Elizabeth it had taken ages to find her heartbeat, and the midwife explained the machine wasn’t very good. When two more midwives, both much older, with newer machines, couldn’t find it, we got scared.
We asked for an ultrasound, and using a low power portable machine they quickly found a sac but couldn’t see the baby properly. We asked for a full ultrasound, and after much waiting we were given conclusive results. Although the sac around the baby had grown properly, the baby itself had stopped growing at about 6 weeks old and now had no heartbeat. Our baby was dead.
On Thursday we went back again and Ruth had a curette to remove the baby. The operation went flawlessly.
So far we think we are coping well. Obviously we are absolutely devastated and have been crying a lot. Unfortunately we and a lot of our family have also got a nasty stomach bug, so nausea and diarrhoea are making life more difficult.
We would appreciate your prayers at this time,
Stephen, Ruth and Elizabeth Parker
(Late 2005)
This isn’t the sort of thing you really want to send in an email, but there are lots of people we want to tell, and this seems the quickest way.
Ruth and I went to Redlands hospital on Wednesday to book her in for the baby’s birth. The pregnancy was going nicely and the baby was now 16 weeks old. When the midwife tried to find the baby’s heartbeat she was unsuccessful. We weren’t too worried, as with Elizabeth it had taken ages to find her heartbeat, and the midwife explained the machine wasn’t very good. When two more midwives, both much older, with newer machines, couldn’t find it, we got scared.
We asked for an ultrasound, and using a low power portable machine they quickly found a sac but couldn’t see the baby properly. We asked for a full ultrasound, and after much waiting we were given conclusive results. Although the sac around the baby had grown properly, the baby itself had stopped growing at about 6 weeks old and now had no heartbeat. Our baby was dead.
On Thursday we went back again and Ruth had a curette to remove the baby. The operation went flawlessly.
So far we think we are coping well. Obviously we are absolutely devastated and have been crying a lot. Unfortunately we and a lot of our family have also got a nasty stomach bug, so nausea and diarrhoea are making life more difficult.
We would appreciate your prayers at this time,
Stephen, Ruth and Elizabeth Parker
(Late 2005)
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