Losing Walter: Alexis Fretz on having a miscarriage at 19 weeks

Warning this is a very confronting story with graphic images of baby Walter, but what a beautiful heart wrenching story it is, how brave this woman is to share this with the public.

WARNING: What you are about to see and read may be confronting or upsetting. News.com.au does not publish this story lightly or carelessly, but does so in the knowledge that one in five Australian women miscarry their child, and many are left feeling isolated, confused and alone. We hope this story will both raise awareness and bring comfort, as it already has done to many families around the world.
WHEN Alexis Fretz was 30 years old and 19 weeks pregnant, she began to bleed. Concerned but not alarmed, she called her midwife, who advised her to go to the emergency room, just to make sure everything was OK.
She was in the waiting room with husband Joshua in a hospital in Kokomo, Indiana, when she began to feel pain in her abdomen.
"At 6pm a nurse came in and gave me three glasses of water and told me to drink up for an ultrasound, and then she left. I put on the TV and started watching House Hunters - I was assuming I wouldn't be able to finish the 30-minute episode because they would come and get me, but I was very wrong.
"A few minutes after 6pm I started to feel a few twinges of pain. By the end of the half-hour show I knew I was in labour."

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/pa...iage-at-19-weeks/story-fnet08ck-1226803996482
 
While it is heart breaking i feel it is a story that needs to be told , too many people say oh she had a miscarriage but don't stop to think it was a baby with 10 toes 7 10 fingers etc, i take my hat off to the Mother for telling her story so people may understand
 
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