I was 39 weeks and it was a Wednesday. I was scheduled to be induced the following Monday. My baby girl was as active as can be and I just knew she would be a soccer player or some sort of athlete because she moved so much. I thought I was going into labor on Wednesday because I was having so many contractions, but they weren't strong enough to go to the hospital.

Later that night I realized that I had not felt her move in quite a while and it was making me nervous because she was such a mover. I called the hospital and they told me that if I was nervous to come in and they would hook me up to the monitors and make sure that everything was alright. So my husband and I decided to go in.

They hooked me up and noticed that the heartbeat was just perfect and it hadn't changed since my last checkup. They didn't do much of any other tests and I didn't think to make them (because after all they are the experts, right?). They sent me home and told me to make sure that I felt at least six movements an hour, which is why I went in in the first place – I wasn't feeling her move! So I went home and didn't really give it another thought because the medical professionals sent me home.

The next morning, I was trying to get myself going into labor, doing all sorts of things like jumping jacks, crunches, I even had a cup of coffee (gasp) to get her moving. She still was not moving. I called my doctor and he was not working that day, but they got me into a different doctor that was working.

My husband and I went in and he and his nurse tried to find a heartbeat and couldn't. They said, "You need to go to the hospital right now and they will hook you up to the ultrasound and see what is going on."

So we went over and they hooked me up and said, "You probably have a fetal demise" (which to me was very insensitive and unfeeling). But anyway, I ended up giving birth or, I should say, delivering a beautiful baby girl, 9 pounds, 2 ounces and perfect. But she was stillborn because she had a very tight knot in her umbilical cord. She was fine the night before, no signs of distress or anything and then the next day, she was gone.

The thing medical "professionals" need to understand is that when a mother says "something is wrong" then something is wrong and they need to listen. If my daughter had been born the night before, she would have lived; whether she would have been fully functional we will never know. I truly believe that if someone would have taken me seriously when I said "she is not moving" that she would be here with me today. I know tragedies happen, but I do believe that some of these things can be prevented!