Family
May 5, 2024

Laura had a stillbirth: "Suddenly my baby stopped moving"

Sometimes life is just cruel: Laura Sheehan and her husband Brett were so looking forward to their third child. But a few weeks before birth, fate struck with full force? because her baby's heart suddenly stopped beating. On her blog 'The Whole Mummy', the Australian is now processing this traumatic experience. She wants to show other sufferers that they are not alone and an awareness of the taboo subject stillbirth? create. They are cells that break your heart.

Suddenly her baby stopped moving

It all looks like Laura would give birth to a healthy boy. But one day her baby is not moving anymore. No elbows beating his mum's belly, no little feet lovingly kicking her? the expectant triple parents foresee the worst.

Again and again they try to elicit a twitch or a fidget from their unborn child, but nothing happens. An ultrasound finally confirms her worst fears. "The edges of his head, the face, the arms, his legs, his hands, his feet, but the flashing little light - off - just quiet"Laura describes the moment.

"I broke inside"

Her little son died in the stomach. When the doctor pronounces the gruesome truth, her husband collapses: "I'll never forget that screamed 'NO' on his lips, that sound of a broken heart, I broke inside, I'll never forget it."

Two more days pass with her dead baby in her stomach, until the Australian woman starts to contract and naturally gives birth to her baby son. "He was born asleep."

"I held my son in my arms, I breathed in him, kissed his head ..."

The moment in which she is allowed to hold the little Beau in her arms, Laura still would never want to miss. It's the only way to say goodbye to your baby. "There was nothing, just silence, I was crying and I was waiting silently for the sound of a newborn, the sound of my baby, holding my son in my arms, breathing in him, kissing his head, his cheeks, his lips I felt his weight on my chest, but I knew he was gone, that the perfect soul I was connected with had left me, I do not think a mother ever forgets how her baby was first It's a nice feeling that I can keep coming back to this moment in my mind. "