Jordyn Lyn
Jordyn Lyn In 1996 we were blessed with a beautiful little boy we named Trevor. When Trevor was three years old we decided that we were ready to expand our family and have another child. In the fall of 1999, I became pregnant with our second child. We were all very excited and could not wait for the arrival of our baby which was anticipated in June of 2000. This pregnancy, however, ended one day before I was twelve weeks along on November 22, 1999 when we suffered through the miscarriage of this baby who was loved and wanted by us all.... which brings me to Jordyn's story.
I became pregnant with Jordyn shortly after we lost our miscarried baby. The thought of another miscarriage weighed heavily on our minds and the first time that I heard her little heartbeat I felt so happy! I passed the twelve week mark and felt relief that the danger of miscarriage was low now. I had a regular appointment at 18 weeks and everything seemed to be going fine, my next appointment was scheduled for 22 weeks and this is where our lives changed forever.
By the time of this appointment, I felt very uncomfortable and felt as if I had grown rapidly in the past four weeks. When I went for my appointment, the nurses thought the same thing and suggested that I was having twins. My doctor came in and sent me to have an ultrasound so that we could all find out for sure if we were having twins. As I sat and waited for my turn thoughts of twins ran through my head... where will I put two babies.... things like this! I was excited and nervous all at the same time, but nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to learn!
During the ultrasound, we knew that there was something wrong. We went back to our doctor's office and were told the news that there was something wrong with our precious little baby. We were told that there was some kind of growth near her bottom (at this point in time we did not know that we were having a baby girl). From this ultrasound we were not told very much. (The growth that was found was determined to be a sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT). This is a tumor which can be very large and is composed of many different cells.) We set up an appointment for a level 2 ultrasound the following week to find out more information....this is an appointment that we were unable to keep.
On May 30, 2000, I was having pains and went into my doctor. This is when I found out that I was in labor at 22 1/2 weeks of pregnancy. I was given medication to try to stop my labor and taken by ambulance to a bigger hospital and was told that if my labor could not be stopped that our baby would not be able to survive on her own. Our little girl was born that evening, she lived her brief little life in the arms of those who love her.
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