"My little Angel"

sweetangel - 03:44pm Jan 8, 2008 EST

I am a 25 year old women who has a 6 year old little boy that was born at 33 1/2 weeks. He weighed 4 lbs. and 15 oz. He spent 5 days in the NICU then he was well enough to go home. I had a severe UTI infection that caused the premature delivery. Me and my husband thought it was time to have another baby. I started having contractions and spotting the night before I turned 24 weeks so I went to the ER. They tried to stop my contractions then they did an ultrasound and I was already 2 1/2 cm dilated so then they were going to fly me to a hospital with a NICU but then they checked me again and I was fully dilated. The doctor had the NICU team fly in and he busted my water bag then felt a little arm or leg. They did another ultrasound and the baby was breeched, so then they took me in to do a c-section. They delivered my baby then he was flown to NICU about 89 miles away. My husband went daily to check on him. I called about 5 times a day to check on him. The 2nd day I got discharged from the hospital and went straight to see him. He weighed 1 lb. and 7 oz. He was so small and his skin was almost transparent. That night we came home and then around 3 in the morning we got a call that he wasn't doing well and we needed to get down there. We got there and he passed away 10 minutes later. This is the hardest time in my life. The doctor said he had an infection that shocked his body. My doctor said I had an inflammed placenta that probably had an infection that my baby got. His name was Ethan Angel.