Ana's Story

This is a story about a beautiful human being, our daughter Ana Caitlin otherwise known as 'babycha' or 'panchita' to our families. We love her very much.

Francisco & I knew each other for a long time and always knew we’d have a family. We fell in love with our first child from the start, even before we knew her. The thought of two people loving each other so much that we could create someone, a product of ourselves, was overwhelming, scary, and miraculous. And as she waited, we fell in love, slowly, with the idea of her being.

Life began and her personality developed. She hated certain spices and favored my left side. I remember the first time I was aware of her movement. We were at the movie theater where I found myself slurping what was to be Francisco’s twenty-ounce coke. This sent Ana into cartwheels and somersaults. Life was wonderful; it was New Year’s Day, what a way to start 1998. There we were in a crowded movie theater in the middle of the night, crying our eyeballs out and rejoicing in the fact that this is - truly - ‘As Good As It Gets’, which ironically was the name of the movie we had just seen.

It was early Tuesday morning of April 21, 1998, just three days short of her official due date. I went to bed with a stomach ache that only became worse. About an hour later, I realized I was starting to have contractions. Once the contractions were five minutes appart, we went to the hospital. I was monitored for her heartbeat and vitals, she was not reacting like they wanted her to and after giving me fluids for dehydration, she seemed to be more responsive. I was admitted and shortly after settling in the birthing-room, her heart stopped beating and she died. It was 6:47 a.m. and that was the beginning of the end of our lives as we knew it.

Though they will never know for sure, the autopsy results say Ana died due to a cord accident. The cord was wrapped around her neck one time and it was so tight that the Doctor could not place his hand between the cord and her neck. Because she was not alive when born, they called her death a stillbirth. Otherwise, she was a perfect little 6 lb. 5 oz, 19 inches, curly-haired angel. There are a few details missing but this is the long of the short of it. Thank you for reading our story, it gives us much validation that there was a life and we are and always will be parents.

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