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This is my story and I hope it can help some future parents prevent the loss of their baby.
This was my 3 pregnancy and evrything looked great till the 20 week ultrasound when they told me our baby had an eco focus and club feet . We met with a perinatologist and he suggested that any 2 "abnormalities" in a pregnancy could be sign for Down Syndrome. We had an ammio performed altough we were not going to terminate we were already in love with our baby boy but we wanted to be prepared and do some resarch meet with families that are in the same situation; Ammio results came back and no Ds or other genetic disorder . We were so happy. Pregnancy progressed great . Dec 31 2008 I went for my last prenatal appointment and Jan 2 went to the hospital for my schedule c section. Nurses / Midwifes could not detect an herat beat . We started to panic but still had no idea of what was to come . It turned to an emergency c section in the hope that something could still be done to save the baby, It was too late baby had died few hours prior the c section due to an hypercoiled umbilical cord .Pathologist told us is extremely rare but yet it can happen. Since the loss of our baby I have done extensive resarch and spoke with few doct. Stillbirth in America occurs 26000 times a year most of 3 trimester are due to umbilcal cord accident, Only way to prevent it is doppler of the umbilcal cord . No signs during pregnancy for some women for others slow growth. I hope this can help somewhat.

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