So Sad

[Linnis]

Watching the news tonight I saw something very sad. A man and his wife, who are avid baseball fans went to a baseball game saturday. The wife was 7 months pregnant. The husband said about an hour in, it was too hot and wanted to move to the shade, by the time they did his wife passed out from heat stroke.

He says she knew it came down to her or the baby and chose to save her baby's life. The boy was born 2 months early and the mother died.

While I was very sad for the loss of this woman, I couldn't help thinking. Why at 7 months pregnant(which I am a few days shy of) would youplan go sit in direct sunlight for 4+ hours(the length of the game if they'd seen the whole thing) when it's 110+ degrees with the humidity?

Prayers for this widow and his new son.

 

[Linnis]

No, I'm not in anyway being judging.

Sometimes my husband will remind me not to do something and I'll think quit being overprotective. Yes, pregnancy is normal but this hit home how easily it can go from not being normal. I should listen to my DH, God makes him protective for a reason.

I don't have much problem with the heat, I just don't go outside until it's past 8pm or before 10am. That heat hitting me in the face makes me want to throw up.

 

[~Mrs. A2J~]

This is being talked about on my September 2006 birth board as the mother in question was due in September as well. Everyone there had the same question of why would they go out in the heat like that. I guess we all make mistakes though and hindsight is 20/20. It is terribly sad.

 

[katelyn]

Yes, that is very sad.

 

[Leanna]

So why did they have to choose? Couldn't they c-section and choose both?

 

[Linnis]

I wondered that too Leanna. I mean why couldn't they have picked both. Sure maybe they wouldn't have been perfect after but they'd both be alive.

I know what you were saying, ProfessorMom. Yes, the heat wave seems to be letting up now if only it would take the humidity with it.