Infant loss

All donations will go towards helping us get back to some type of normalcy, we have a lot of unpaid debt due to the hospital stay. I had to quit my job as a surgical technologist after experiencing multiple break downs and panic attacks at work. I started my career back in 2013, having to leave my career has been devastating. I’m currently out of work but looking for something I can do at home while still helping others. Anything will help at this point.

One day, we would love to build Nailah Sol a memorial. To honor her and to cope with this pain by doing something special to celebrate her life and to bring our family peace. We plan to restore a vehicle, not only creating a hobby to keep us busy but a project with purpose. We plan to spread awareness about incompetent cervix and infant loss through social media as we show the process of building her memorial. We hope this can be something to bring other families together that have experienced loss.

Our Story

We were ready to grow our family. We have a 10-year-old daughter, her name is Layla. It was time to start trying for a baby. We found out we were pregnant in April; we were so happy. Our plan was to move out of our small New York apartment and move to Florida to give both our daughters a big home that they deserve. In June, I was around 16 weeks pregnant when my doctor checked me and told me my cervix was short, but we weren’t too worried. By our next appointment, I was around 20 weeks, and my cervix was 3cm dilated and funneling, I was diagnosed with an incompetent cervix and hospitalized to delay preterm labor. By this time, we were only in Florida for one month, I just started my new job in a hospital and Eddy was waiting to start his new remote job with an automotive warranty company, Layla just started 5th grade. We were not ready for this journey. Eddy and Layla would come visit me in the hospital as much as they could, there were good days and bad days for all of us. During my entire stay in the hospital, I had 7 IVs, 4 beta steroid injections, magnesium, 2 spinals and an epidural to prevent preterm labor. This all caused me to have extreme PTSD. At 23 weeks, I had an emergency C section. Nailah Sol Polanco was born on August 19th at 4:31 p.m. she was 1 pound 5 oz. She was our beautiful, strong baby. Every day we would wait for a phone call from the NICU with her update, we would visit her as often as we could and just admire her. On September 7th, Nailah passed away she fought for 19 days. We had her cremated so, we can finally bring her home. She developed an infection in her stomach and her heart stopped, the doctors were not able to save her. The past few months have been extremely hard for us as a family emotionally and financially.

Thank you in advance to anyone who decides to support us in this very difficult journey and to anyone who contributes.