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my lil levi.

Amber - posted on 04/23/2012 ( 2 moms have responded )

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My husband and i have a 10 year old boy named gage he is my husbands stepson and my husband and i together have 3 girls ages 6,5,4. We decided we wanted one more child and we got preg with our last child finaly our lil boy that we have been wanting we named him Levi Henry Diesel Quick and we loved him before he was here. He was born Feb 17 2012 a day before my youngest daughter they were so happy. On sunday March 18 2012 my husband came home from his 3rd shift job to find our son not breathing we preformed cpr and he got to a hospital he was airlifted to Riley's childrends hospital in indy where they had him on all kinds of meds. We decided to take him off life support on march 19 th the machines where doing everything for him he never woke up for me to see his pretty blue eyes ever again. We found out from an autopsy he had sepsis and narcotizing entercolitis and he prob had it from birth and it was treatable but was never caught levi never had any symptoms that i didnt take from him being a newborn baby. i miss him sooo much there is a piece missing from my life now . will it ever get easier and how can i help my children cope with levis death my oldest 2 are taking it really hard

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Ashley - posted on 04/29/2012

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I am sorry for your loss..It is hard and after a while it gets easier My son passed away 3 years ago and it is still hard sometimes.. I didnt have children at the time but I did have god-children and they were so sad. I just explained to them that now they have a guardian angel and whenever they are feeling sad they can always talk to him because he is always there. My god-son even gave him a ring that he says was to protect him and he was buried with it. Life definitely gets easier as the days go on but there are still days you will feel down just think of it as a blessing that you were blessed with the small time that you had because some aren't so lucky.

Katherine - posted on 04/27/2012

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Amber,
I am so sorry for your loss of Levi. I am told that while you will always miss your child that you can still have a good life, 'a new normal'. I haven't found that yet, but I am only 5 months out (and the 5th month can be incredibly hard, told by a few Baby moms).

I replied to post about helping children, I think some of the suggestions may help you as well? Look around the forum, I think I was the only reply.

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