{"id":233855,"date":"2020-10-30T09:20:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T14:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=233855"},"modified":"2020-10-29T20:56:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T01:56:44","slug":"chrissy-teigen-opens-losing-son-time-say-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/chrissy-teigen-opens-losing-son-time-say-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrissy Teigen writes about losing her son at 20 weeks: ‘I can feel the pain all over again’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this month, model Chrissy Teigen shared the devastating news that she and her husband, singer John Legend, had lost their son<\/a>, Jack, at 20 weeks gestation. Teigen posted a series of black-and-white photos on Instagram in an act of transparency rarely seen in regards to the loss of a child. Now, Teigen has gone into more detail about the complications that led to the loss of her son in an essay on Medium<\/a>. Warning: Teigen’s testimony may be disturbing for some readers.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

One of the difficulties Teigen experienced was hearing other people celebrating the life of a new baby who was born adjacent to her room while she was experiencing a painful loss. “Here we were, just wheeled down to a new floor, me covered in a thin blanket to hide, knowing I was about to fully deliver what was supposed to be the 5th member of our beautiful family, a son, only to say goodbye moments later,” she wrote. “People cheered and laughed right outside our door, understandably for a new life born and celebrated. You kind of wonder how anyone is thinking about anyone but you.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, she had come to accept that she was going to need to be induced at 20 weeks \u2014\u00a0too early for Jack to survive. “I was previously on bedrest for over a month, just trying to get the little dude to 28 weeks, a ‘safer’ zone for the fetus. My doctors diagnosed me with partial placenta abruption,” she wrote, adding, “[T]his was my first abruption. We monitored it very closely, hoping for things to heal and stop. In bed, I bled and bled, lightly but all day, changing my own diapers every couple of hours when the blood got uncomfortable to lay in.”<\/p>\n