When Your Baby Dies
An Inspirational Journey of Grief
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His foot felt hard. Next, I tried to take the remote control out of his hand and it was stuck in his hand. At that moment I realized that Kris was dead and I started screaming, “Oh No God! Please, Please! No, God!
I went to him and laid my head on his chest and cried; and kissed him on the face; and begged him to wake up but he was gone.
I ran and called 911 and said, “Send someone quick, my baby is dead.” The dispatcher asked me “How old is your baby?” I told her, “Thirty, please hurry” and hung up the phone.
For the next several weeks, I lived in a fog. It was like everything was in slow motion and nothing was happening for real. It seemed I was dreaming it all. There was an endless list of things that had to be taken care of, and many things had to be taken care of by me.
I had a long conversation with the doctor who did the autopsy on my son. I was on the phone with LifeNet Health for what seemed like hours. Being a donor was a decision that Kris made for himself. He had the donor heart on his driver’s license. I remember thinking to myself, “That’s my Kris—always thinking about others.”
It was almost three months before I got the autopsy results on the death of my son. The doctor determined that his heart stopped in his sleep. He was disease-free, with no drugs involved. The autopsy read, “Natural Causes.”
Can you tell me what is natural about dying at the age of thirty? After those three long months of waiting, little did I know I was only beginning a journey of grief that has no end.
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When your child dies, your world is changed forever. You are thrust into an abyss of grief and darkness—a place of loneliness that many people can’t understand. Author Renee Hogan Blythe lost her only son, Kristopher, when he died without warning in his sleep at age thirty. Now she shares her heartfelt story of her personal journey of grief, providing insight into what happens when a parent loses a child of any age.
So often, others have a difficult time understanding the shock and devastation that parents experience when their child dies. Telling the story of how she overcame the demons associated with grief, Blythe speaks to all parents who have lost a child at any age and for any reason. Whether your child is a newborn or age sixty, he or she will always be your baby.
When Your Baby Dies seeks to help parents who have lost a child at any age in any way to understand that they are not alone. To get healthy again, we must learn how to create a new normal for ourselves and our families.
About the Author
Renee Hogan Blythe was born in a small town in Arkansas and now resides in Virginia. Her son, Kristopher Glen Hardrick, died in their home on June 3, 2008 of natural causes at the age of thirty. After a short-term marriage, she was a single parent in every way that counts—emotionally and financially. Her experiences during the next five years led her to write her first book.