Mom Tiffany shares birth story and death of daughter Khyana, born at 26 weeks
Still A Part of Us · Winter and Lee Redd
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Show Notes
Mom Tiffany tells the birth story and death of her daughter Khyana, of how she got pregnant with her boyfriend at the time, but she found out that she had an incompetent cervix. She was 1-2 cm dilated around 24 weeks, so they admitted her to the hospital. Tiffany's water broke a few days later and she developed an infection a week later. She was induced and gave birth to her daughter Khyana, who needed to go to the NICU because her lungs were not developed and needed assistance breathing.
The doctors discovered an infection, likely due to a hole in Khyana's bowel, and were prepping her for a procedure to fix it, but her heart stopped before the surgery and she died 4 days after she was born.
Listen to Tiffany's grief journey and advice to other loss parents here: https://youtu.be/tnAzQFjcijo
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Time Stamps:
- 00:00 Welcome
- 02:43 Pregnancy
- 05:51 Problems with pregnancy
- 07:13 Admit to hospital
- 10:47 Giving birth to Khyana
- 20:03 Khyana in the NICU
- 23:49 Khyana has an infection
- 26:45 Her heart stops
- 31:49 After she Khyana dies
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