Why This Plate Means The World to Me
Hi Mamies,
My name is Lea and two of your wonderful volunteers made a plate for my beautiful baby girl who was born still but still born. Last year I was involved in a domestic violence relationship and left it, my older brother was hospitalized for 9 months, and then my mom found out she had colon cancer. So, suffice to say I was stressed out was truly an understatement and if that all had not been enough my house was broken into and I lost everything. I hadn't been having any cycles but never thought it could be because of pregnancy. I really just thought it was my body changing because of all the stress I had been going through. December 17th my stomach was in immense pain and I decided to go to the doctor. Come to find out I was 31 weeks and 6 days pregnant. Man was I shocked. I didn't understand what was going on and was then transferred to a better hospital with the message that they could save myself and the baby should anything go wrong. I was still in shock - like baby what baby? On January 3, I was told that I was 33 weeks pregnant with my sweet little Breanna Renne but that she had a lot of malformations and that she would not survive outside of the womb and was then offered a medical termination of my pregnancy, I was broken to find out that I was pregnant one minute to being told that they wanted to end my pregnancy the next. Moments later the doctors told me that I didn't have to make the decision because upon looking further to the ultrasound they saw that my placenta had absolutely no fluid and that the baby had no blood around her. She had passed away inside me and the cord had been wrapped around her neck. My sweet baby girl came into this world stillborn on January 9th at 11:49 AM. It’s so hard to believe or imagine that I was going to have to go through any of the this let alone by myself. I appreciate what you guys do so much because I don't have very many memories of my sweet sleeping princess and having to make arrangements and doing all of that alone was one of the hardest things I have ever been through in my life and I have been through a lot of trials and tribulations. Thank you to each and every one of you and all you do.
Lea Bryant