My water broke and I gave birth to my daughter at 16 weeks on Friday. She passed away after 51 minutes. I'm waiting for answers. They did so many tests at the hospital including blood cultures during my 3-day stay. It looks like I had some kind of infection, which attributed to me having contractions and going into labor early bc I've had cyclic fever and chills since August 7th.

I got woken up to an urgent call from my OB yesterday morning wanting me to see my PCP immediately to run more tests and followup, especially keen on iron serum studies. My OB even called my PCP for me and scheduled the appointment as soon as available. This instantly made my gut feeling meter go sky high. Something's wrong.

Some of the blood cultures are coming in and showing aniscytosis (specifically saying my red blood cells are abnormally shaped) and lymphopenia. It also mentioned a pattern that I've had chronic iron-deficiency anemia for almost 2 years despite being on iron supplements to treat that.

I'm really scared bc I wanted answers so badly. I wanted to know what happened that made my baby girl no longer with me. Now that that's happening, I think I'm about to find out more than I bargained for. But this is important to know for when we try again to conceive.