Staci Woods is sharing her story about the death of her baby, to bring awareness to pregnancy and infant loss.
FISHERS, Ind. — A Fishers mom is sharing her story about the death of her baby, to bring awareness to pregnancy and infant loss.
Indiana ranks eighth in the nation when it comes to infant mortality. Health leaders around the world have paused to mark World Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day. That's a global effort to raise awareness about miscarriage, pregnancy loss, and SIDS.
Staci Woods lost her baby just weeks before her due date.
"Woke up one morning and just had some tightness," said Woods. "I hadn't really felt her move."
A nurse encouraged her to go to the hospital.
"Even to that point, there wasn't a whole lot of anxiety, we like packed our bag, thinking, 'Oh, we might be having a baby today,'" she said.
Woods was almost 38 weeks pregnant. When they arrived to the hospital, doctors learned baby Ella had no heartbeat.
"She came in with an ultrasound machine and she flipped it on and flipped it off," said Woods. "That's when I knew."
She was delivered by cesarean section on Feb. 21, 2019.
"We got to spend the next 24 hours with her, which will never be enough time," Woods said.
Woods and her husband Nate experienced a fetal maternal hemorrhage – which she said is very rare. They also experienced a state of grief they never imagined. Baby Ella would be starting school this year.
"You're grieving all the memories we should be making," she said. "It's like you're standing in an ocean, sometimes you're drowning in it, sometimes it's just hitting your feet, but you just never know where you're at in that process."
A year later, around what would have been baby Ella's first birthday, the Woods family partnered with He Knows Your Name Ministry to donate four Cuddle Cots to local hospitals.
"It's a cooling device that sits bedside with the mom of loss and it keeps the baby cool," said Linda Znachko of He Knows Your Name Ministry. "It is a gift of time."
Family can keep the baby in the room while mom is in the hospital recovering.
It is something Staci Woods believes will help some moms through their healing journey.
"Everyone's going to have a different experience with it," said Woods. "No one's grief journey is the same."
For the Woods family, being a part of a community who understands the different levels of grief is what helped them.
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