By Margot, Norway
PROM at 15 weeksDelivery at 24 weeks.
Story added: 1999-10-08

My husband and I lost our little daugther right after birth on the 16th of September this year, after 24 weeks' pregancy. Her name is Signe, which means "a person who fight and win".

Signe passed away right after birth. The doctors ran away with her to try to save her, so we never saw her alive. She was still warm when they returned with her. Signe's lungs were immature due to her young age in combination with a complete lack of amnion. My membran raptured after 15 weeks' pregnancy, probably because of a bleeding from the placenta since week 12. I were leaking once or twice daily the last month. If she had been born some weeks later, they might have saved her, our little, beloved daughter. She was so beautiful! She looked so much like her daddy. She had blonde hair and eye lashes, and tiny, tiny finger nails. We brought her home after the post-mortem examination. It was so good to have her with us in her little coffin in our own home.

Signe was our first child. We would never, never have been without her. She has given us so much. The months of pregnancy when we could feel her tiny movements, the songs that we song for her and which now give us so many memories, the hope that we had (at least sometimes), the love we felt and still feel towards our beautiful little princess. I feel that I could have gone through the whole painful and traumatic pregancy once again if I just knew that I could see her and hold her, our daughter, another second.

She has made us understand more about what life is about. She made me and my husband come closer together. She tought us so much.

I miss her.

Margot
Norway