It is beyond irresponsible behavior.

I don’t understand how this evil man can do what he does.

I've never suffered through the loss of a child, so I have really no idea how terrible this must be.

But I can imagine.

And that is something this deranged thing who occupies our White House could never do.

No empathy.

No sorrow.

No caring.

Nothing, nothing at all but the wish to demonize his opponents.

only if she promised she'd get her body back in shape quickly afterward? I know this is "hearsay" but it was reported from a number of sources at the time of Trump's candidacy, and it certainly sounds believable, all things considered. It must be very hard for Baron, who has nowhere near the "first kid" attention that most younger children of presidents usually get (and which might not be a bad thing) That, in turn, however, leads to speculation as to his intelligence. How unfair, whatever the truth. Just the occasional moment of "acting like a loving dad" is far beyond Trump, except when it comes to Ivanka. Marla seemed like a "homewrecker" at one time, but Tiffany may be the lucky one. She has the financial support, but obviously has to bear little "attention" from dear old dad. Meanwhile she seems to have interests and ambitions of her own, beyond a nominal college degree.

nurses like this front and center in nationally broadcast interviews to provide context and counterpoint to Mango Mussolini's batshit comments.

at our local hospital. Since retiring, my wife and I have taken up several hobbies. My wife makes quilts and we both volunteer at the hospital where our daughter works.

One day I noticed my wife sitting at her sewing machine making small quilts. They were too small to be baby blankets, but too large to be placemats, which she has also made. I asked her what they were and she said "Fetal Demise Blankets". She explained that when a baby does not survive birth, if the parents wish to have some time with the baby, they wrap the baby in one of these quilts. They can then keep the blanket as a keepsake if they wish.

I am so glad I married this woman. She's been retired for ten years, but she will be a Nurse until the day she dies.

Thank you for sharing... "she will be a Nurse until the day she dies."

so you know she has seen and dealt with all manner of horrific situations and dealt with families coming to grips with what their loved ones are going through.

As tough as the nursing she spent her professional life performing she takes her hat off to the nurses who work NICU and pediatric oncology.

I am also proud this amazing woman has spent 37 years with me sharing our lives together. Donnie O will never understand what she has done and the people whose lives she's touched and he will never have the peace and joy you and I have been blessed with in our lives with these remarkable women.

to make Angel Gowns.

https://www.nicuhelpinghands.org/programs/angel-gown-program/

oh, wait...

believe this - and yet they do. Do they think this is happening in the hospitals in their community?

Just the big cities? Just “abortionists” offices?

I’ve got my own mental issues so I’ve had to go through various sanity tests. You need to be able to demonstrate the ability to get from premises to conclusions without ending up down the rabbit hole.

These people can’t.

....a horror movie we're watching.

They're the ones that really frighten me.

Bless the people who are there for all of these little babies and their families. They are angels on Earth.

As for Drumpf, may he rot in hell.

but I have no doubt the description is true. How could he say such a thing?

Thank you for your writing about what nurses do to comfort those who have lost a newborn. Your words are truly comforting to those of us who have not suffered through such a loss. It has to be so difficult for the parents to anticipate a new addition to their family for such a long period of time only to lose the child.

For this so-called president to utter such words is the most disgusting thing I have heard reported. Although I find it shocking that his followers absorb, accept and cheer most of what he says, I hope their reactions to those horrid words at that rally were not the norm.

What a disgusting individual.

I think all the news stations need to run some sort of program about this, some kind of a national push back on him, something big has to happen over this. Network execs and the press along with clergy etc. need to mount some kind of a national wake up call over these comments - he needs to be shamed on every TV set, every radio, every cable and network station, in the streets, in the workplace in the churches.

This madness MUST Stop. American people wake up! If this does not stir your conscience to something, nothing will and you are just as dead as he is. We can't let this pass. This is the end of the line.

Ironically the anti-choicers use aborted fetus pictures along with almost identical language to yours to argue the anti-choice perspective.

between my wife and I, collectively, and insanity. They lovingly got imprints of his little feet and hands. They clipped locks of his curly black hair (yes, he had a LOT of hair!). They held us as we held him. God bless you, labor and delivery and NICU nurses, for everything you do. Especially, for caring for families on the worst day of their lives.

The work they do is priceless. Every year, the nurses and doctors have a reunion for the NICU babies who survived.

I am sorry for your loss.

(The Twitter thread is not by me)

That is so very sad and the nurses deserve all the praise they can get for what they do. I hate this man for making light of such tragedies for political purposes. It is disgraceful.

This prays upon the fragile memories of those who have had to lose a baby in such circumstances.

No hospital practices inhumanity like this.

L-

As evidenced by the touching stories on this thread, is humanity at its finest. What’s really sick is how he takes that and perverts and twists it to enrage his brain dead followers.

and Donald Trump blames the mother and the doctor. There are no words in the English language to adequately describe how evil that man is.

it would be so much easier to call out Trump and the far Reich -wing's hateful lies and bullshit

I am not clinical but I have worked healthcare security for 40 years. I had performed CPR on 5 infants who did not make it. I've escorted staff taking infant corpses to the morgue to await the funeral home.
It is horrible.

I worked with an RN friend who would carry the deceased infants to the morgue, not pushed on a cart. She held them lovingly and tearfully as we took the baby to the morgue.
You did not think of touching her after completing the task as she was so deeply grieving for the innocent loss. After an hour or so, you could touch and talk to her.

How can Trump and his hateful excuses for human beings be so cruel and heartless over the tragic death of a newborn?

The lies and filth that spew from his mouth are unconscionable!

Something like forty percent of women are anti-choice; that is the ONLY thing giving Republicans any female votes.

And he's inciting violence against Planned Parenthood clinics and doctors.

Something very, VERY special...

Trump doesn't originate the crap he spouts, he plays it back to the people who already believe this stuff.

I've lived through a still birth. I know I would have been charged with assault if someone had ever said this to me, but I also know that there are simpletons who believe this. Trump isn't an originator, he's an amplifier.

However, I wish to make a counterpoint to one statement in the essay posted.

" Don’t believe a word he says about anything important. "

I have no argument to make with the wisdom of the sentence above, but it's important to remember that Trump lies about everything. He makes statements about things that are relatively unimportant in the great scheme of things that are untrue and easily disputed. When he lies about something important, said lie is even more calculated and cynical and deliberately self-serving.

Mother was an RN in NICU for many years, mostly caring for children with cancer and such, but also neonates.

I worked very close with nurses at my local ER. (Retired mortician)

You folks are angels and probably the only other folks who truly know what families go through losing a baby. Holding a tiny lifeless body is something that never leaves your soul. Their little bodies are sometimes in such unimaginable conditions that are both heartbreaking and disturbing.

The local nurses have special blankets and clothing that they put the babies in for transport to the funeral home. They are so kind and gentle with both the babies and the grieving parents. We've shared alot of tears together over the years.

I never even saw her.

She was born with a deformed heart, walls between the chambers only partially formed.

I was a kid, and they didn't allow kids to visit in OB wards back then.

They didn't even allow Dad in until she was already gone.

That's not the only reason my parents' marriage failed but it was certainly a contributing factor.

My sister was born.

The nurse baptized her.

She died.

My mother has carried the grief since. She is 89 years old, now. If my sister had lived she would be fifty-six now. Mom still talks about her from time to time.

I would have liked to have a baby sister. I was so looking forward to that.

When Mom came home without the baby I was confused and sad.

People didn't talk about such things much in our family back then. Stiff upper lip and get on with the job, yanno.

But she is not forgotten. She was my sister, and she is missed.

How unimaginably cruel do you have to be to mong this kind of fear?

sadly,
Bright

my mother had a baby boy. He never came home from the hospital. He died shortly after he was born. His name was Jay.

My mother became too depressed to take care of me or herself. My dad, who was only twenty-three, took a second job to pay for the funeral and for my mother's psychiatric care. He gave me away to family friends because I was so neglected.

My mother began to recover somewhat by the time I was four. She had had another baby. We were living on my dad's family farm where my grandmother was helping a lot by caring for me and my new baby brother. My mother was under orders from her psychiatrist to spend a certain amount of time with me daily in order to bond with me and build a relationship. It never worked out that well. We were never friends or fond of each other. That crucial early time was lost to her depression and grief.

My mother is ninety. She still grieves for Jay.

Trump is a monster. He has no idea how an infant death harms a family.

What can be without living it.

you spoke of meant she never "thrived". After a few weeks Tanya passed away. My mother was so heartbroken, it took a long time, and me being born, to begin healing some of her loss. She, or my father, rarely spoke of her, even as they reached their nineties. It was still just too painful for them.

Trump, or anyone that lapped up his crap, has no idea.

nurses are angels on earth.

This thread hits so close to home, if for just our brief glance at the indescribable pain that can come from expecting a healthy child to be thrust so quickly when one is not.

Our son born 14 years ago arrived with underdeveloped lungs and came about 3 weeks early. It was surreal to have the staff suddenly go quiet into motion when there were no cries. The swept him and me away to another room where they told me what was happening. To them nomal, for me terror.

We saw the unthinkable and made it through with their professionalism and the compassion. Fortunately, it was a rather common problem that needed a week to clear up. In that week of visiting our son daily, we saw the babies that would not make it or didn't have anyone visiting. In those cases, the NICU staff was there for the little ones.

Thank you to your profession and all that goes with it. To be so wantonly cast by this unknowing sloth burns so hot for me.

#NICUheroes

every day, for most of two months we were in the NICU, we witnessed miracles of care, joy, and unbearable sorrow, all comforted by nurses with professionalism and limitless compassion.

What Trump claims, to his dimented followers, would NEVER happen. Evil evil "man" that he is.

I have had 3 adult children - lost my oldest 4 years ago. I also have lost 3 babies - DJT has never given birth and has no clue how bad most mothers want a child and how incredibly painful it is to lose a baby. Why is that ignorant DJT even making comments about mothers and their babies, what business is it of his? He interjects himself into every aspect of our own personal lives and apparently, some ignorant people support that behavior. DJT acts like he is GOD!!! Oh, how I hope and pray someone with some power will put a stop to him NOW. He and a lot of others that go along with this unlawful behavior need to be in jail. Another thought, you know DJT could give a hoot less about our babies and their lives, he is just saying what some sicko's has told him to say!!

But why are some nurses apparently lying about this? I wont like to any stories, but they're a bunch of saying that's what happened.

Then maybe you SHOULD provide a link? Just a suggestion...

There are rw extremist nurses, I'd like to see who is agreeing that this ever happens.

Thank you.

Your post brought home the side of birth that I had rarely considered. The love and compassion you all show is the bedrock of what it means to be human.

Thank you so much for your dedication to what has got to be one of the hardest jobs there ever was. I'm sure each and every family were greatly comforted by your thoughtless efforts.