By Denise Bodden, Brooklyn, NY United States of America
PROM at 20 weeksDelivery at 20 weeks.
Story added: 2003-01-23

Hello my story starts june of 2001, I was pregnant with my second child and hoped for another problem free pregnancy however, at about 16 weeks I started to feel a low sinking feeling in my groin and some intense back pain. I had another daughter so I knew this was not regular, I rushed to the doctors office and they told me that in many subsequent pregnancies this tends to happen. They told me to get a pregnancy belt and that I could continue working and not to worry.
Well one day at work everyone startd to tell me how pale and sick I looked and that I should go back to the doctor, I felt sick and had excrutiating back pain so I went to the emerggency room where they told me to take some tylenol and three days off of work. In three days I went back to work and started to feel worse-the back pain had gotten worse and the groin pain was making me walk with a wobble like I was 9 months pregnant when I had only just reached 20 weeks,and I was huge, I gained 8 ppounds in one week. I went home and started to feel some light trickling of water coming from in between my legs, back to the doctors office I went. They did a sonogram and found nothing wrong , they said I was a worrywart, so back home I went - again and for the last time pregnant.
The next day I had felt horrible and the leaking got worse , but I just slept until the pain had become so bad I had to breathe through it. After going to the hospital so many times I really just wanted to wait out the pain until my next appointment which was the next day. The pain had become unbearable and I called my friend who was a maternity nurse and she told me to get dressed that she was taking me to the hospital right away. On the way there I started to bleed and pretty soon I was in so much pain that I could not talk or walk.
By the time I was admitted (5 minutes later) I was 10 centimeters and the babys' heartbeat could not be detected-everything had gone pretty fast from there, my water broke completely and I did not even have to push because the baby was already in the birth canal.
Stephanie-Madison was one pound, and had only gasped for air once. We held her and mourned her loss, but were eased by the fact that she was with God and now we had a personal angel to watch over our first daughter.
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