For some reason, I've been thinking a lot lately about dying during pregnancy/childbirth and it's the one thing that really gets to me. I blame facebook. All those pages (Bringing Home the Browns is the one that comes to mind) about women who died and babies who did or did not live (although I know the mom in Bringing Home the Browns didn't die...still scary and sad as hell as she has been in a coma and missed several months of her son's life). It's just terrifying...to the point where it makes me think maybe I shouldn't have another child, even though I know I want one, and I want a sibling for DD.
I work at a non-profit agency that works with kids who have been abused... part of my job is interviewing prospective volunteers, and we have to ask them about their history of trauma. I just read an application for a lady I was supposed to interview who said that her daughter died when she was 8 months pregnant and she had to bury her daughter with her baby in her arms. As soon as I read it, I started crying and said I couldn't do the interview, so we had to rush around and find someone else to do it. I felt like an , but I just know I wouldn't be able to keep it together while she talked about this...
Just had to get that off my chest. Sorry to be a downer.
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Oh yes, I think about stuff like that sometimes!
We want another child and plan to TTC again later this year, but in the back of my mind I think "what if I die during childbirth and leave both that baby and DS with no mother?".
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