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Post by erzulie on Nov 9, 2006 15:52:31 GMT -5
Today I was subbing as a teacher's aide, and I found out that a second grade teacher at the school just lost her baby. Her son was two months old and she had just come back from her maternity leave. She was feeling a bit guilty about leaving him since he was her first child, and then yesterday afternoon she saw an ambulance go screaming past her school. She was a little worried because she knows all the families in that neighborhood, and then she got a phone call and it was her baby. Nobody knows how he died, he was thought to be perfectly healthy and there was no accident or anything to cause it but all of a sudden he was just gone. I don't know the teacher very well but I remember when shed was pregnant and when she was on her maternity leave. I also saw ehr right after she got back from leave and she was so happy, she had that new mother glow. I can only imagine how she must feel losing her baby so suddenly like that. I heard the story from a third grade teacher who was explaining it to her class, and later one little girl who had previously had the teacher whose baby died went to her current teacher in tears and kept saying "She was so happy, I remember when I was in first grade and she was about to get married and she said after she got married she would probably have a baby and she was excited. I wanted her to be happy." I almost broke down and cried when I heard that. It was touching to see that the child cared so much. I imagine it's really hard on the teacher's current students because they've been hearing stories about the baby and feeling excited, and then they saw the ambulance go by and saw their teacher pulled out of class. They must all be in shock. I hope that she will be able to deal with all the feelings of guilt she must have. It must be so hard to recover from something like that, he was her first baby and he was barely here and then he was just gone.
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Post by apple on Nov 9, 2006 17:23:36 GMT -5
That is very sad. I can not even imagine the pain this poor mum is going through. I think that Losing love ones is one the hardest thing that we as humans go thorough in life.
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Post by cherry on Nov 9, 2006 20:41:44 GMT -5
Wow that is an awful coincidence, especially as you said about her feelings of guilt over leaving him. Here's hoping the autopsy gives her answers she needs, something to know it wasn't her fault...
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Post by ouchy on Nov 9, 2006 22:26:06 GMT -5
That is SO sad. Poor teacher. Poor students...poor little baby.
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Post by Nari on Nov 12, 2006 20:13:57 GMT -5
Awww.. sad. I cant even begin to imagine. I will put her and her family in my prayers.
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Post by Jenn on Nov 12, 2006 23:58:21 GMT -5
It's just so sad that things like this even happen. This past April a friend of mines nephew died of SIDS. He was only 3 months old and died 20 mins. before his grandma was picking him up from daycare...so not only does she feel gulity, the mom does too about being at work. I could never imagine it but, being there for my friend seeing the pain even now is heartbreaking. Good news though, she is pregnant and due this spring:)
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Post by candice on Nov 13, 2006 6:10:19 GMT -5
When I was two, my mom had a second child who died of phnemonia (sp?) in the hospital one week after he was born. He was preemie and had to be sent to a different hospital then the one she was in and the Drs. didn't even tell her he was sick until it was obvious he wasn't going to make it. He lived long enough for her to hold him and then died in her arms. She swears that if she was withhim, he would have lived. I didn't even know I had a brother until a few years ago. She doesn't talk about it much.
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Post by katie35 on Nov 13, 2006 8:16:38 GMT -5
That is so awful. I don't know if I could handle it. Just the thought of losing my kids makes me cry.
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Post by maryland on Nov 24, 2006 13:02:04 GMT -5
We need to keep that family in our prayers
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