My nurse Rebecca began taking action to help calm me. We found out my son no longer had a heartbeat, and I was in labor. Rebecca ended up staying with me as my nurse that night. She gave my husband and me time to absorb the information and asked if we had had family, we would want with us. At the time there were restrictions on visitors, but I needed my husband's Mother and Grandmother to be his support people. The staff was worried about me, but I needed him to have people he could lean on as we went through the most difficult journey. Rebecca called security and informed them to let my in-laws up so they could be with us. Rebecca made sure I was comfortable and talked to me about what to expect, and asked if we would want to hold our son and what to expect.

Once I delivered my son, Rebecca wrapped him up and let us spend hours with him, she found a way to get his hand and feet prints for us and gave us his measurements. She comforted us and treated us like she knew us her whole life. Rebecca was our nurse the next night and discharged us home. She gave me hope for the future when I didn't see any after the loss of our first son. Rebecca is the type of nurse all nurses should be. She was an advocate, compassionate, and thorough with her care for us and lived up to all the service standards of AdventHealth and the goals they have for patient care and seeing the whole you. She showed her passion for her job in her care for not only myself but my husband and my son. She validated my son and talked about his features and how big he was already at 18 weeks.

I was in nursing school at the time and my original goal when graduating was to become a Labor and Delivery nurse. After going through my loss and meeting Rebecca it solidified my choice. I want to be Rebecca for someone that has the unfortunate and tragic experience I had. Without Rebecca comforting us and validating that I did not do anything wrong I don't know where I would have ended up. I can not speak more highly of Rebecca; I will forever be indebted to her and feel like she was a guardian angel that night. I will forever be thankful she was working that night and that I had her as my nurse. We just passed the one-year mark of our loss and not a day goes by that I don't think of what our lives would be like with him in it, and in the same thought the gratitude I have that Rebecca was with us that night She is the gold standard.