I was due to give birth on May 8th 2012. I had a C-section scheduled on 
May 1. I woke up April 25th, the day before my youngest little girl's 
2nd Birthday. I cleaned up around the house, I made breakfast, I did 
mother things. I did not notice that the baby within had not moved all 
morning until just before noon. After calling my husband, and then the 
doctor I was rushed immediately into L&D thinking the entire time 
that she had just dropped a little more and run out room. 
The first 
nurse found a heartbeat with the monitors, but did not respond when I 
said, "oh that's a relief." She simply said minutes later that she was 
going to confirm the placement of the baby in a sonogram and quickly 
left. The heartbeat had been mine. 
She returned trailed by three 
white coats and all three stared intently at the monitor. The one with 
the wand asked if she could sit on the bed. My husband held me closer. 
"Is she alright?" I asked. 
"No I'm sorry." And my supposed to be future stopped with her little tiny heartbeat. 
Every
 thing, every plan that we had made over the last 9 months that was so 
certain to happen, that was SUPPOSED to be is changed. I was supposed to
 hold her, and feed her, take care of her, love her, watch her grow and 
play and interact with us all. I was supposed to save her and keep her 
healthy and I was supposed to touch her pink cheeks and count her pink 
toes...
I held her, My Gabraella Joy, after, after they unwrapped the
 cord that was not SUPPOSED to be wrapped four times. I held her and 
loved her, and love her still. But I cannot love her like I'm supposed 
to love her.
And all of these "Supposed to be" things I'm somehow 
supposed to make peace with and I'm SUPPOSED to one day be okay with and
 I still can hardly wrap my mind around them. How with two beautiful 
healthy girls at home did I fail so miserably at saving the smallest? 
I know... I know.... there was nothing anyone could do.  But it's not much comfort.
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