Stillbirth Support Group
This community is dedicated to those who have been impacted by a stillbirth. A stillbirth occurs when a fetus which has died in the uterus, during labor, or during delivery exits a woman's body. For help and support, share your experiences and learn how others coped. Don't forget that you are not alone.
SophiasMom2010
Hey.
I lost my baby Sophia a year ago on September 17th, 2010. I just wanted to ask if anyone else has flashbacks like this. Sometimes, even when I'm not thinking about what happened, something will remind me and I get flashbacks to being in the hospital, when my boyfriend handed me my daughter and she was purple, or when I was first finding out she had no heartbeat. My whole body feels sick and shaky and my heart just beats faster and all I can think of is how she felt in my arms or how I screamed or how Sophia's daddy cried. Sometimes it feels soooo real. Is anyone else going through this?
I lost my baby Sophia a year ago on September 17th, 2010. I just wanted to ask if anyone else has flashbacks like this. Sometimes, even when I'm not thinking about what happened, something will remind me and I get flashbacks to being in the hospital, when my boyfriend handed me my daughter and she was purple, or when I was first finding out she had no heartbeat. My whole body feels sick and shaky and my heart just beats faster and all I can think of is how she felt in my arms or how I screamed or how Sophia's daddy cried. Sometimes it feels soooo real. Is anyone else going through this?
deleted_user
I get flash backs all the time its horrible. I get panic attacks and really nauseous. It's not fair that we have to go thru this. It's so heart breakng to begin with now we have to relive the moment over and over.
eventer00
I lost my boy over 3 months ago and I still get very vivid flashbacks. The flashbacks will be from different times of that awful day but I still remember each one like it was yesterday... the excitement of going into labour, then the devastation of them not finding a heartbeat, having to call my parents, the look on my husbands face, etc. I am crying as I'm writing this. I don't want to forget but I don't want to relive it over and over again either. ((Hugs))
deleted_user
Yes, I get lfashbacks all the time. I recently had to go for my 6 week check up and as soon as I got into the gown and got on the bed I started balling and panicking andi had to leave. I had to postpone my check up, it brought back all of the memories of the delivery and being with the doctor and finding out the horrible news.
deleted_user
The flashbacks are a daily occurs for me... Some days more often then others... :(
deleted_user
I lost my daugther on August 13 and I have worked hard to heal, but I too get moments where the horribleness of the events on that day pop in my head and I too feel overwhelmed with anxiety and saddness and just can't believe I had to go through such a tragic event. That I lost a full term baby! That I had to deliver a 6 lb. baby who was not alive... What horrible flashbacks all of us women have to endure... my thoughts are with all of you.
lynettemr
My brain keeps playing the movie over and over. I cannot take anything that happened that day out of my mind. I do imagine my girl here with us, wearing cute outfits, smilling at her brother, going everywere with me and it feels really real. It's scary sometimes how real is everything in my mind. I just wish that it were all true.
deleted_user
oh yes - saturday was a bad day for me - i seemed to relive scenes the whole day...at one stage my mom walked in on me in the kitchen ...i was trying to remember to breath inbetween the sobs ..i was on the floor trying to hold myself together...Dont actually remember how i got there but she just sat adn hugged me till i was ok. Some days are always going to be worse than others.
deleted_user
The flashbacks hit me, randomly. Whenever they do I start to get teary-eyed and usually cry. It's hard to pull myself out of the funks that flashbacks put me in. You're definitely not the only one experiencing those things.
deleted_user
I have horrible flashbacks also. The hospital scene, pushing for over two hours, being rushed down to the or, waiting to hear my baby cry...and hearing my husbands loud cry instead....getting up to walk, and falling because of the nerve damage I did to my legs from pushing.....going home from the hospital two days before Christmas without my baby girl and with a walker......it goes on and on, over and over again. When I have down time....all I do is think about the scene in the or. I have been going to therapy for ten months now, but now I'm going to get some help for post traumatic stress syndome. I feel stuck in the first week. It's just horrible, and never should have happened.
deleted_user
It has been 3yrs and I still remember. Sometimes watching TV makes me and my husband turn the channel or not watch a movie. The pain will always be there, but we have to move forward having loved ones keep us strong to move forward.
deleted_user
It's been 9 weeks and I also still get flashbacks a lot. Mostly of the ultrasound and the midwife saying that there was no heartbeat. It just keeps replaying over and over again.
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