Snif… Deze moeder zette haar doodgeboren baby op Facebook

Wauw. Eerder deze maand beviel een Amerikaanse vrouw van dochtertje. Het meisje werd dood geboren. De moeder besloot de foto’s van het meisje en haarzelf op facebook te zetten. Wij hielden het niet droog, want de reden dat ze dit deed is echt heel lief.

Op 11 september beviel Natalie Morgan uit Orlando van haar dochtertje. Het meisje (Eleanor Josephine) was 40 weken en 6 dagen oud toen het doodgeboren werd.

De Amerikaanse besloot om deze tragedie aan te grijpen om andere kersverse ouders een belangrijke boodschap mee te geven: “Hoe zwaar het ook is, die eerste weken, en hoe en wanhopig je soms ook bent, misschien dat mijn verhaal je er doorheen sleept.”

Lees hier alle comments op haar Facebookpagina.

• There will be times your child will scream and cry any time you try to put him or her down. Or they’ll cry even as they’re in your arms and you’ve done everything you can possibly think of to get them to stop. There will be sleepless nights, multiple diaper changes in a matter of minutes, spit up in your hair, pee on your shirt, and poop in your hands, and again – so much screaming from the baby, and probably from you as well. Every time that happens, every time you feel frustrated and want to run away, please remember my story
• ”I keep having flashbacks to that moment. It’s a crippling, all-consuming feeling of utter suffocation, and a memory that will haunt me for the rest of my life. In that moment, I felt trapped as if the ceiling was literally crashing down on top of me. I couldn’t breathe, lashed out, I screamed, I threw things, I threw up…and then a piece of me died with her. I was helpless to change anything. My body was supposed to keep her safe, and instead it killed her. I was 40w6d.
• “All I ask of you is when you have your dark moments with your baby – when you’re at your wits’ end and feel like you can’t go on anymore when you’re only getting an hour or two of sleep a night – instead of begging your child to go to sleep and wallowing in your frustration and exhaustion, say a prayer of gratitude for your child, as difficult as it may be in that moment. And if you would, say a prayer for me and all the mothers whose children were taken from them too soon. Say a prayer for my sweet, sweet Eleanor who never got to know life outside my womb.”