Jamie Otis has experienced something she wishes no woman would ever have to experience:
Just days after announcing she was pregnant, the reality star lost the baby to a miscarriage.
Otis, who exchanged vows with Doug Hehner immediately after meeting him on the series Married at First Sight, took to her official blog a day after this tragic news went public and poured her heart into a new message.
She attempted to put what she and Doug are going through into words.
“My heart is so heavy,” wrote Otis, whose little boy was due in December.
“There are no words to express the pain and sorrow associated with losing our baby Hehner.”
Otis went on to write that she had just recently chose to visit a high risk pregnancy doctor’s office due to concerns that she was bleeding more than a pregnant woman should.
The reality star added that child was still moving around and had a strong heartbeat at the time; physicians found nothing wrong with the placenta, either.
Visiting the first of four specialists, Otis and Hehner discovered that things were not okay with their bundle of joy:
She did not have enough amniotic fluid.
“How could the prognosis be so ‘poor’ when I had just seen our baby’s feet kicking and his little body bouncing around in my belly less than a week before,” Otis writes.
“Needless to say, we didn’t want to believe in that prognosis even though everyone raved about how amazing this doctor is. (And there’s no doubt in my mind he is an amazing doctor, but we were just in such denial!)
“We decided I would go on bed rest, drink lots of coconut water and even more regular spring water and fight for our baby.”
Otis also shared the above collage on Instagram and wrote the following as a caption:
Baby Hehner, daddy made this picture collage for you. It’s only been one day since we lost you, but our love for you has grown more than you’ll know.
You’re our little Angel up in Heaven.
We cannot wait to meet you and hold you again one day. We love you and miss you.
We send our condolences to this couple at this very difficult time.