How Sad

From jsonline: Stacie Napoli had rituals for every ultrasound she underwent. She held a St. Anthony medal given to her by her mother, prayed to St. Gerard and held a holy card from her grandfather's funeral.
"You've never found anyone who wanted children as much as she did," said her mother, Kerri Livermore.
Napoli, who served in Iraq and was a 17-year veteran of the West Allis Police Department, died Monday just moments after giving birth to twins.
As word spread, the department was inundated with condolences and offers of support. A special fund to help the family had already raised more than $20,000 by Tuesday evening. Many donors had never met Napoli, but were heartbroken.
Napoli, 39, died of a pulmonary embolism — a sudden blockage of a major blood vessel in the lungs, usually by a blood clot — after giving birth by Caesarean section at West Allis Memorial Hospital, according to a medical examiner's report.
The twins, Parker and Ellie, are in intensive care but doing well, said Livermore, of Greenfield. Ellie weighed 2 pounds 4 ounces; Parker weighed 1 pound 15 ounces, she said.
They're a little bigger than your hand, but not much, she said.
Napoli, of Hartland, had been admitted to the hospital on Jan. 22 for preterm labor. A Caesarean section was scheduled for Feb. 16 because of premature labor, at 27 weeks and 1 day. The babies were delivered and, while Napoli was being moved from the operating room, she suffered the embolism, the report said. Her husband, Jeff Pollack, was at her side.
"I just want people to know how good of a person she was," he said Tuesday. "With her job, she took a lot of pride in what she did. She cared about what she did, helping people."
Pulmonary embolism in itself is not rare, according to Karen Domagalski, operations manager in the medical examiner's office. However, pulmonary embolism due to childbirth is rare.
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How sad that you go from joy of giving birth to twins and then you die.  Then you have her husband who also went from joy of having 2 cute little babies to having to burying his wife in a matter of moments.
RIP to the mom and prayers to the family, friends and fellow police officers.
And pray for the twins who will need extensive care to survive and life without their mom.
You can find out more about the family at this web site: http://www.gofundme.com/6y83o8