Daniel's Story
I started spotting about five days before the miscarriage.  We went to the ER, they did an ultrasound and said everything looked okay.  They told us that if I was going to miscarry, there wasn't anything they could do, so they sent us home.  Two days later, I woke up and went to use the bathroom.  I was in front of the tub, talking to my husband when a gush of water streamed down my legs.  We went to the ER and again they did an ultrasound.  They said there wasn't much amniotic fluid, but that the baby looked okay.  So, they sent me home again, this time on bed rest. 

On May 15, 1997, I woke up several times during the night with a lot of pressure in my lower abdomen.  I would use the bathroom and go back to bed and go back to sleep.  On May 16, I woke up and the pressure got worse during the day.  It got bad, and I went and laid down in bed.  Before I knew it, I was feeling as if something was coming out.  Well, it came completely out.  I yelled for my husband and he came and looked  and it was the baby.  He ran and called 911.  The ambulance came and took us to the ER.   When I got there they took me into a room.  They did another ultrasound to see if everything was "expelled" and the placenta was still there, do I had to have a D&C.  After the D&C was over, and I had recovered, we asked to see the baby.  The nurse brought him in and to my horror, they had put him in a mason jar with some kind of fluid.  We couldn't hold him.  We counted his ten fingers and ten toes.  He was very tiny, but he looked like a miniature baby, so perfect...
Well, in a few hours, they discharged me and we went home with empty arms.  I was so upset because I didn't get to hold my baby.  We didn't know that we could hold him or we would have asked to.  I am now upset that we didn't say anything because I have found out the we could have.  It has been really difficult since the miscarriage.  I long to hold my baby, but there is nothing I can do to bring him back.

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