Stories of Lost Children
Juanita Mae
by Christina Koers, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
My beautiful Juanita was born September 14, 1999. She was born at Sparrow Hospital. I remember it broke my heart and shattered my soul. A piece of me was gone. Yet it seems shes alaways in my heart and mind. The doctor indused labor 7 weeks early because of her heart. When she was born the nurses would not let me see her until the doctor got there. When he told me she should have never made it this far in pregnancy it cut to my soul. To think he could say something that mean. My daughter had a double heart defect, cleft palate,and cleft lip, as well as an extra finger. They told me there was nothing they could do to save her as she took her first and last breaths as i held her. Juanita mae died in my arms all I could is cry. Its been four years since she died it still feels like yesterday. Her dad wont even look at pictures of her because hes afraid. My hope in this is that someone else will find comfort in knowing that the will start to ease.
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