Stories of Lost Children
4 Day Old Daughter Died in our Bed
by Jennifer Westley, Kitchener, ON, Canada
We were so thrilled our first child was going to be a girl. We named her Julie after my cousin who died of cancer at 23 and after my middle name. Her middle name Kathleen after my mother. I had a c-section after 48 hours of intense labour, we took her home and I fed her all day and night. Our last feeding was at 2:00 a.m. in our bed, we must have fallen asleep and I awoke at 5:00 a.m. to the light in the bedroom still being on. I pulled back the duvet and my baby girl was on her back dead in between us. My hubby is training to be a fire fighter so he started CPR and chest compressions while I called 911 hesterically. They couldn't revive her. We miss you more than anything, my darling angel, our hearts our broken without you. My arms have never felt so empty. We will always love you and wonder what could have been.
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