hdrinovsky
hdrinovsky
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| Member | May 26, 2015 (11 years) |
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After struggling with fertility issues from PCOS and going through rounds of medicine before we found one that worked, our beautiful son Gavin was born January 26th 2015. After a perfectly healthy pregnancy, Gavin was born at 38 weeks with high Apgar scores, weighing 8 lbs and 15 ounces. Everything seemed to be going smoothly. I had an infection during labor and he was not descending, so I needed a c-section. The plan was to keep him in the NICU for two days and give him antibiotics. Two and a half hours after birth, he started having apnea and then seizures. He was transferred to another hospital for further testing and it was discovered Gavin had suffered a massive stroke that affected the left side of his brain. He was starting to improve but then coded. He was airlifted to Phoenix Children's Hospital on his third day of life and despite the doctors best efforts, Gavin was not able to recover. Gavin left this world on January 29th 2015 and with him went a huge piece of our hearts. We were in such shock. We feel the heart-wrenching and devastating pain every day. We miss him every second of every day and will carry him in our hearts forever.
On August 1st 2015, we found out I was pregnant with our second child. A huge layer of fear and anxiety set in, as we now know there are no guarantees. We tried to be cautiously optimistic. We saw our baby's heartbeat on August 25th. Two weeks later on September 9th, although our baby was measuring correctly at 9 weeks and 1 day, there was no heartbeat. September 10th, was the extremely difficult day of the D & C surgery. Our grief journey has unwillingly taken us down a painful path of multiple losses. This blog is a way for me to express my thoughts while trying to navigate through our grief, taking each day at a time.
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