A young woman that I first met a couple of years ago came
back to the hospital. I met her when her baby died after her womb ruptured.
This unusual situation nearly ended the life of the young woman too. Against
the odds this woman and her husband had not given up hope of having a child and
were now pregnant. She was having to be in hospital for the remainder of her
pregnancy. She would get really bored because she felt well but needed to be in
or around the hospital in case her womb ruptured again.
I popped up to see her regularly. At one point I visited
nearly daily as she started to talk about difficult issues she had faced as she
was growing up. I think these issues were coming up because she had so much
time to think. Also as you prepare to be a parent, it also makes you think
about the parenting that you have received.
The baby that died was a girl. I had taken her funeral and
had got to know the family a bit through that experience. In between that baby
and the boy baby that was now being carried there were other miscarriages and
another womb rupture. This pregnancy was indeed a miracle. It felt like the
whole hospital community was holding its breath.
A healthy baby boy was born to ecstatic parents a few
weeks early as there was a fear that the womb wouldn’t hold out. It’s so nice
to have a happy ending sometime.
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