Mom Shares Birth Story of Daughter, Born Still at 36 Weeks | She Was PERFECT!

Mom Taylor shares the heartbreaking story of finding out that her first child, her daughter Hazel's heartbeat stopped around 36 weeks gestational age and that she would be stillborn. She and her husband Tad were devastated and she describes her pregnancy, finding out, delivering Hazel, and spending time with her in the hospital. She also tells of her funeral and the autopsy results.

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Time Stamps:
00:00 Hazel Rae
01:18 Introduction
04:03 Pregnancy
11:35 Finding out
16:33 Anguish
21:36 Birth
27:37 After birth
39:53 Giving her back and going home
41:29 Funeral arrangements
55:57 Autopsy

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