Promptings

     I felt sick, sick physically, mentally and spiritually.  I just delivered a full term still-born son.  How could this happen again?  Yes, again! Our first baby was also a full term stillborn son.  Discouragement was the name of the game I now was engaged in playing. Did I ever feel sorry for myself?  Yes indeed.
That's how I felt in September of 1976 as we had to plan a graveside service for our baby.
      I knew time would heal as it had about 8 years previous.  But that didn't make it any easier.  Time can go ever so slow when all your emotions are on a roller coaster ride.
     Now fast forward another year. I am at a Stake Primary meeting and we completed a few minutes early we all begin visiting.  A lady who I had never met before started telling us in great detail about the wonderful OBGYN doctor she has.  I was disgusted with mine and so I paid careful attention, and scribbled down his name somewhere in my Primary book and forgot about it.
     Six months later I found out I was pregnant and immediately hunted for the name of that doctor.  I went through all my Church  books and looked for a name resembling a doctor.  I found such a name and  I  checked the phone book to see if in fact there was a OBGYN doctor by that name (since I didn't write "doctor in front of it").  There was,  so I called and set an appointment.  I was so pleased and impressed with his ability to care.
     Three months later I was bleeding. Fear came over me from the past.  My doctor had to hospitalize me to control the bleeding.  The bleeding was coming from my placenta, the baby was OK, but every time I got out of bed it would start up again. Eventually as the baby grew, so would the tear if something wasn't done.
     After 3 days in the hospital the doctor released me with this advise "Rebecca I did some research, and there was a lady in NY who had the exact problem and they gave her high doses of Vitamin C and it healed the tear in the placenta.  Go home and take a lot of vitamin C."  I did, I took 1,000 milligrams 5 to 6 times a day.  I still took it easy, but was able to get up and help my other children.  During delivery 6 months later, the doctor marveled at the placenta and said look you can see where the tear was and how well it healed in order to carry this baby to full-term.  How could simple vitamin C be so powerful as to heal the tear that threatened a miscarriage at 3 month, enough to get me full- term?  I don't know, except I have learned that Vit C is nicknamed the cement for healing the human body.

Jacob holding his baby Charlotte Daisy

      I am so grateful that I listened to the prompting to write down the doctors name and then be reminded of it when I was searching for  a doctor.  Also I am grateful for a doctor who clearly cared, enough to do research on my problems.

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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

     Not only did I get that baby(Jacob) but was able to have two more baby girls as I followed that advice given about the value of Vitamin C.