Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Her name was Camille.

Last night, exactly three weeks after we lost our baby, we got the results of the DNA testing from our doctor.

We found out that our baby was a little girl, and we were going to name her Camille. The miscarriage was the result of a "spontaneous chromosomal abnormality" that was "incompatible with human life." In other words, our little Cam, or Cami, or Millie was never going to make it.  She had an extra set of chromosomes (69xxx) and her death in-utero was just a matter of time.  We feel very blessed that we found out that we lost our baby so early (at 11 weeks) instead of the more typical timeline with this type of chromosome abnormality that can occur late into the 2nd trimester.  Losing her was a terrible loss, but losing her at 20 weeks would've been much worse.  At this point, we are just happy that we had her as long as we did.

All-in-all, we remain grateful for what we have...optimistic for the future...thankful to everyone for the support...and in awe of the miracle of life.