A New Jersey mom was excited for her late-pregnancy appointment, not knowing it would be her last.

Karen Brennan, 38, went to the doctors for a check-up when she discovered the devastating news that her baby boy, due in a few days, no longer had a heartbeat.

Brennan, who was almost 35 weeks pregnant at the time, told Newsweek about the day it happened. Her provider struggled to find a heartbeat with the doppler and suggested moving to an ultrasound.

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“She said, ‘I’m so sorry, Karen’ [and] that’s when I knew something was really wrong,” Brennan said.

Hours later, she and her partner, 38-year-old Michael Johnson who share daughters Kya, 12, Dakota, 10, and Aria, 7

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