Cheyenne Greenwald shared photos of her stillborn son after she lost her baby due to a diabetes complication.
The 20-year-old, who has type-1 diabetes, hopes her story will prevent the same thing happening to others with the condition.
She opened up about how her husband had to make the decision for her to give birth naturally to her stillborn son.
Her 21-year-old partner Caden also feared she could die if she had a c-section.
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Speaking to Mirror Online, Cheyenne, from Utah, US, said: “Caden had to choose if I had a c-section or deliver naturally.
"Because of the emotional pain I was already going to be going through he didn’t want me to go through the physical pain of a natural birth.
"But I had less chance of surviving a c-section than I did a natural birth. He told me once I was more aware of what was happening."
In the photo, the couple can be seen holding their little boy in a heartbreaking snap taken after the delivery.
Cheyenne, a type-1 diabetes sufferer, first realised she was pregnant when she missed her period.
Then after a friend joked she could be pregnant, she took a test which confirmed she was carrying a child.
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However, in the seventh month of her pregnancy, Cheyenne started to feel unwell.
According to the publication, her insulin levels were low as the pump providing her with the critical hormone had been set up wrong.
As a result, the mum-to-be started vomiting and drifting in and out of consciousness as a result of diabetic ketoacidosis.
She was rushed into an intensive care unit and although she recovered after five hours, her baby Dean tragically lost his life.
Now Cheyenne is hoping her story will urge other diabetic women to be fastidious about their medical equipment while pregnant.
“My pump was set up wrong because no one told me a doctor had to set it up,” she concluded.
"My point is, when a diabetic women is pregnant it’s okay to be scared but just be more on top of it and make sure your pump or ratios are set up properly."
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