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A expectant mother who covered herself in bees for her maternity shoot has suffered a still birth.
Emily Mueller, 33, whose photos of herself and 20,000 bees went viral earlier this year, wrote about her experience on Facebook.
Emily said she went to hospital after she noticed little movement from her baby.
Nurses tried and failed to find a heartbeat. That’s when a doctor came in and told the family the ‘baby has passed’.
She wrote: “I can’t and don’t want to explain that feeling to anyone. Turning to your husband and seeing him die inside. Seeing him completely break. Seeing your children feel and suffer your pain in front of your eyes. The pain is unbearable.
“The Dr. encouraged me to look at the screen and I wished I hadn’t. I wished I could remove the imagine in my mind of seeing the unbeating black, lifeless heart on the screen.’
When they got home they opened up the envelope the hospital had previously given them revealing the baby’s gender. It was a boy. They named him Emersyn Jacob.
Emily later returned to hospital to give birth to her boy.
They chose to send off the placenta for testing, although Emily suspects blood clotting was the ultimate cause of death.
The family spent time with Emersyn via a special cooling cot donated by a mother who later found out it was being used.
Emily is a local honeybee rescuer. She had hired photographer Kendrah Damis to do the maternity shoot. Since bees are such a big part of Emily’s family’s life, she came up with the idea to include the swarm in the photos.
To get all the bees to join in the shoot, Emily simply put the queen bee in her hand and they followed her.