Amniotic bands occur in 1 of every 5000-15,000 births … Nearly 10% of cases include umbilical cord strangulation.<\/div>\n
There’s so much more in those articles. Like these bands, they more often cause physical abnormalities by entangling limbs. There is also some mention of ultrasound identifying these bands, but I would imagine that would depend highly on how many there are, where they’re located, how much amniotic fluid is there, how big the baby is, etc etc etc. (No I still don’t blame anyone for this. Just making mental notes.)<\/p>\n
It is so… weird… to have a definitive answer. I refused to google anything before this…. there were too many maybes and I didn’t want to drive myself crazy. So it’s weird to know, to look it up and know<\/i> that’s what killed my baby. Another adjustment to my new reality.<\/p>\n
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Den’s having a rough time coming to terms with the results. We are both extremely relieved that there is nothing that will put me at higher risk the next pregnancy… but at the same time he is so angry<\/i> right now. When I told him about the doctor’s call and what they had found and what a freak accident it was he just kind of sagged down to sit on the baby gate and looked at me with a dazed expression and said, very calmly, “I am really fucking angry.” He’s been back and forth between wrenching grief and anger all evening.<\/p>\n
I’m just glad I can be here for him. I know men – at least my man – always feel this need to be the protector… to be the strong one and hold things together. I mean, while Den was crying tonight he looked at me and said, “I’m sorry I can’t be there for you.” And I asked him what he was talking about, because he’s always<\/i> there for me. He replied that he meant right at that moment. He felt guilty for needing me to hold him tight, because that’s not the way it’s supposed to be. But what he doesn’t get is that it’s nice<\/i> for me to be able to be the strong one once in a while… it makes me feel a little relieved, that I’m not the only one needing support. I can do something for him once in a while. Light knows I feel so useless sometimes, watching him be hurt and angry and knowing there’s absolutely nothing I can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am doing research via Google on Amniotic Bands…. just reading. Just a general article: Amniotic Bands and Sheets An article from a 1953 Medical Journal about a similar incident: Neonatal Death due to Ligation of Umbilical Cord by an Amniotic Band From the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Strangulation of the Umbilical Cord […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,76,69,70],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-den-and-me","tag-ivf-3","tag-loss","tag-stillbirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}