Nairobi Mum of 5 Painfully Recounts Spending Night with Dead Baby in Hospital: "I Couldn't Bury Him"
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| Nairobi woman Grace narrates her pregnancy loss in the hospital |
She said she was hopeful of the third pregnancy as she was wiser and had done all she was asked to do to secure the unborn child. "I had even closed shop to take a bed rest. I was so certain of this pregnancy, having gone through loss before, and I did not want to regret not doing more or going the extra mile. I even had a private gynaecologist," she said. Grace receive heartbreaking news about newborn Grace mentioned she delivered safely, but her afterbirth took a while; hence, she had to wait before doing anything else.
She remembered hearing her newborn's cry, which gave her positive feedback that he was okay even as the little one was taken to the nursery. "When it was time for me to have my baby, I was told the doctor would bring him. After a while, the doctor showed up with my private gynaecologist and other medical officers. I knew something was wrong. They said they did everything to keep him alive, but they could not. I was not only sad but furious," Grace shared.
Grace wraps dead newborn Grace was adamant about seeing her baby, and they took him to the nursery, where she saw him lying lifeless. Despite being ready to be discharged the following day, in the state to grapple with the sudden loss of her child, Grace asked to be with the baby that night. "I told them to wrap and bring him to me to be with him that night before going home the following day. I held my dead baby, carried him all night long until the morning," she agonisingly recalled.
by John Green
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