Photo: Morgan Goodwin/Instagram
Morgan Goodwin is opening up about the loss of her twin sons with her husband, San Francisco 49ers wide receiverMarquise Goodwin.
Morgan tells PEOPLE the boys were born after her water broke prematurely, leading the doctors to perform a procedure to remove her previously implantedtransabdominal cerclageso they could deliver the babies, who ultimately did not survive.
Morgan (right) and Marquise Goodwin.Morgan Goodwin/Instagram
Morgan and Marquise revealed their loss in January,explaining in a videoposted to their YouTube channel that Morgan had experienced painful contractions and lost the twins due to complications.
Morgan now tells PEOPLE she “stayed with my boys all those days” she was in the hospital following the difficult experience, having to be monitored and administered antibiotics for three daysafter doctors observed a spikein her blood pressure and a fever.
“I would stay with them the whole time they were in my room. The whole time,” says the athlete. “I did let them go back to get dressed and take pictures and get measured and stuff and then [they] brought them back. But I had them the whole time when we were in the room.”
This is the third time Morgan and Marquise, 28, have experienced a pregnancy loss, after she miscarried following “a slip-up” in college andthey lost their premature sonin November 2017, at 19 weeks gestation.
After the couple decided to try starting a family in summer 2016, Morgan says it took a year for her to finally see a positive test — after undergoing procedures related to remedying issues with her cervix, as well as endometriosis and a polyp in her uterus.
Morgan reveals to PEOPLE that she and her husbanddecided to share their storyto potentially “help someone else” traveling along a similar difficult path.
“It’s something that [many] women experience but nobody talks about it. So you don’t talk about it,” she says. “When you experience a miscarriage or you experience pregnancy loss and you don’t see anybody talking about it, then you think that nobody else is going to do it. And you get to a point where it’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t want to talk, I don’t want to tell anybody that I had a miscarriage.'”
“‘Let’s not tell anybody that I had a miscarriage because I don’t want nobodyto think that I’m fault. I don’twant nobody to think that my body can’t do what it’s supposed to do,'” she adds. “So I feel like it’s a good thing to let other women know that you’re not the only one that has lost babies.”
source: people.com
