loss mom 👼 👼 👼 && engineer @duosec && cs grad student @gtomscs

Texas
Joined January 2017
Rhone Willow Bentley entered and left the world at 4:29pm on June 20, 2022. She was 8 inches tall and weighed 220 grams. She lived in my womb for 18 weeks and 5 days. I want the entire world to know that she existed and was absolute perfection. 💕
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Meet Juniper! We adopted this little thing in January. Her adoption was delayed because they discovered she had distemper. By some miracle, she survived but will have permanent neurological problems (constant muscle twitches). She has given us so much joy after a difficult
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18 months dealing with 2 miscarriages, losing our daughter Rhone, and having to put down our two dogs, Lily and Lucy. She has brought life into our world when there has been so much death. It's amazing how much happiness a furry little creature can bring you. ❤️
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Yesterday we said goodbye to our little Lucy. 🌈 She loved snuggles, food, kisses, food, hikes, and food. I miss her immensely.
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🫠 I feel like I am the embodiment of this emoji lol and I appreciate Apple making it.
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My husband and I will be moving out of Texas to an area where we have access to abortion. It’s the only way to safely have a pregnancy. On June 20, 2022 I gave birth to our daughter Rhone at 19 weeks gestation. The 24 hours leading up to her birth I was hemorrhaging. I was
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gestation which means there was literally nothing that could be done to save her. My life was the only one on the line. The abruption slowly deprived her of oxygen until her heart beat for the last time. I am lucky that I went into labor and pushed her out when did. But what
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would have happened if the timeline was different? It’s difficult to live through the trauma of birthing my dead child. I would have given my life for her to live. I want her to have siblings and I so badly want to be a mama to an earth side baby. But I can’t do that if I’m dead.
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In May we had to put our dog Lily down. In June we lost our daughter, Rhone, to cervical insufficiency and a placental abruption. That same week our dog Lucy started having seizures. We put her on anticonvulsants this past week, she had a severe reaction and
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stopped breathing on Saturday. I thought she died in the car on the way to the emergency vet. We got there, they did CPR, and stabilized her. She showed improvements and came home with us today. I’m feeling very thankful for this extended amount of time I have with her. ❤️
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Packed up Rhone’s belongings today. 💕 All those items represent a future that no longer exists and it’s difficult to process.
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The best advice I’ve been given this week is - you just have to make it through the next 5 minutes, when things feel impossible just focus on getting through 5 minutes.
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This is so fucked up. I am so fucking angry. As someone who literally just went through a late stage miscarriage and was close to needing one so I wouldn’t bleed out… I’m at a loss for words. Fuck.
BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade case, ending nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion. Bans are expected in roughly half the states. apne.ws/LjY3m25
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Something I was not prepared for and didn’t think would happen - my milk came in for Rhone. For anyone out there, what have you done when you’ve experienced loss but had milk come in? Try to pump and donate? Try to stop it? What was your emotional experience?
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We were able to spend one night with Rhone then had to say goodbye. Numbness took over me as I watched her be rolled away. I couldn’t cry, I couldn’t move. I felt empty, like a big part of me was being removed. Watching your child be taken away is an indescribable feeling.
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Just breathed in and it pushed my keyboard tray away from me. 🤰🏻
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If you are conveying to someone that you would like it to be colder do you say...
86%Turn the AC up
14%Turn the AC down
14 votes • Final results
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Really want to escape away to some fresh, cool mountain air.
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I’ve been able to tolerate Texas summers since I moved here. But this year, I just can’t. Make it stop. 🥵
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