Life definitely has its ups and downs. We are presented with things we can and can’t control. A woman named Michal Lura Friedman wanted more than anything to be a mom. Four hours after the birth of her kids she was pronounced dead. Click below to read the story.
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On their second date, her husband, Jay Snyder, recalled, she just came right out with it: “I want to get married and have kids.â€
After seven years of trying, the 44-year-old singer-songwriter became pregnant with twins. The next nine months were the happiest of the Manhattan couple’s lives.
With her husband at her side in the OR, Friedman delivered a healthy 6-pound girl at 4:48 p.m. on Nov. 25 and a 7-pound, 12-ounce boy two minutes later.
Four and a half hours later, she was dead.
“One of the many things that is despicable about this is that she didn’t really even get a chance to hold her kids,†a tearful Snyder told the Daily News. “They held up the babies to her, she saw them and smiled at me, but she was kind of out of it from the drugs. She wanted to be a mother more than anything else in the world.â€
Friedman, who described her tiny, 100-pound frame as “5 foot nothing,†had just the usual morning sickness — with no hint that anything terrible could happen as her due date approached.
Because one of the children was a breech baby, a C-section was scheduled for Nov 28. The children were full-term — 38 weeks.
The day after Thanksgiving, an elated Friedman went to NYU Langone Medical Center for her preop appointment. Her blood pressure was elevated, Snyder said, so doctors made the decision to admit her and do the C-section that day.
A grieving Snyder, and dozens of relatives and friends who loved the spirited and spiritual woman known as “Michal the Girl,†now struggle to understand what happened.
It is an unspeakable tragedy that Snyder, 41, is trying to absorb, replaying in his head her final hours as he watched doctors try to stem her postoperative bleeding, and then saw her slip away on an ICU table.
As doctors worked frantically to save her, he rooted her on.
“Please, please, please stay with me, Michal, you have to be here,†Snyder repeated to himself, just 90 minutes after hearing his newborns wail healthily in the delivery room.
