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Post by Maxx on May 24, 2010 10:51:32 GMT -5
(CNN) -- Merely 10 weeks after losing her newborn, Katie Van Tornhout learned she was pregnant again. "I freaked out," she said. "I cried. I didn't want this to happen. ... We almost wished to have a miscarriage. We felt it wasn't right to have this baby." Van Tornhout and her husband were mourning the loss of their 5-week old girl, Callie, to whooping cough. Still stunned from her death in January, her parents had no immediate intention to conceive again. But life had other plans. Feeling shocked and unprepared, Van Tornhout also worried that other people would think her pregnancy was to forget or replace Callie. "You can never replace a child, whether they're here for six minutes or 16 years," Van Tornhout said. "People think you can get another one. It's not the same." www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/24/pregnancy.grief.loss/index.html?hpt=C2
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Post by LadyTexan on May 24, 2010 11:08:02 GMT -5
And I agree.... no one will ever replace my son... he was his own unique self.... I have met a couple of people over the years that wanted another child, saying that it would replace the child they lost... I'd just shake my head & walk away.
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