Mom holds blood drive in memory of infant son
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On Aug. 15, 2014, baby Deric Aguilar entered and left this world in nearly the same instant. After a complication-laden cervical pregnancy, suffering placenta previa and placenta percreta, Natalie Aguilar gave birth to a 9 ounce baby boy. He survived a difficult pregnancy, but did not survive labor.
Even so, she calls him her “little miracle baby who made it through so many things.”
Aguilar underwent a tubal litigation, while in the very early stages of pregnancy. She believes that where the standard urine test didn’t yield positive results, a blood test would have. Her goal is to change the standard care, and to see a day when all pregnancies are confirmed via blood test.
“It would detect pregnancy much earlier than a urine test,” she said, “when I had by tubal litigation, all they did was a urine test.”
After her ordeal, Aguilar required two blood transfusions. To give back, she is hosting a blood drive in Ganado on Saturday, Aug. 15. It will be the second blood drive she hosts, and the first time since the birth of her son that she will be able to donate blood herself.
“What better way to honor him than to give somebody else a chance at life,” she said, “like it was given to me.
The event will include speakers, a video presentation by Dr. Karin Fox, a maternal fetal medicine doctor that treated Aguilar, as well as Natalie’s own story of overcoming placenta accreta and percreta, surviving, and then losing her son. A bouncy house for children will be available.
The blood drive will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15 at the American Legion Hall in Ganado.
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