Posted on 03/21/2017 5:14:59 PM PDT by Morgana
A new memoir by Mayte Garcia, ex-wife of the late singer Prince, reveals a beautiful but tragic story about their son who lived just a few days outside the womb.
Yahoo News reports their baby boy, Amiir, was born on Oct. 16, 1996 with a genetic disorder called Pfeiffer syndrome type 2, and lived for six days.
Despite Amiir’s genetic disorder and his short life, he was precious to his mother and father. In her new book, “The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince,” Garcia said their main concern was for their son’s life.
Here’s more from the report:
When Garcia, then 22, discovered she was pregnant, she and Prince were overjoyed at the thought of raising a family at their home in Paisley Park. The pregnancy went smoothly until she began bleeding one day and a doctor recommended an amniocentesis to test for genetic abnormalities. The procedure, the doctor warned, carried a risk of miscarriage.
Yet as the doctor told them: “Sometimes the body is trying to release the fetus for a reason.” But Prince, Garcia writes, was against it: “My husband said, ‘No, we’re not doing that.’”
Once home, the couple prayed for his health.
“Please, bless this child,” said Prince as he prayed on his knees. “We know you won’t allow this child to be harmed.”
Further appointments revealed more causes for concern. Garcia said an ultrasound showed that Amiir was smaller than he should be, and one doctor suggested he might have a form of dwarfism.
“My husband and I looked at each other and shrugged,” Garcia wrote. “‘And?’ he said. ‘I’m totally fine with that.’ I laughed. Of all the possible outcomes that had been offered to us, this was the first one that didn’t terrify me.”
She said when Amiir was born, she saw “pure joy” on her husband’s face. But the joy turned to fear and pain upon seeing Amiir. Garcia said he had severe physical abnormalities. Their little boy died six days later.
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Garcia said neither she nor Prince ever really got over Amiir’s death.
“I don’t know how anybody can get over it. I know I haven’t,” she told People.
Lindsley Allen, a dancer who worked with Prince, previously told People that the baby boy’s death was devastating to the couple.
“It was really sad. I think he was really looking forward to being a father,” Allen said. “It was very difficult for them and I don’t think they really recovered from that. I felt a very paternal feeling from him but yet that was something that he never really had known.”
“I remember they had built a swing set out in the back and they had a playroom built,” she continued.
Garcia later miscarried their second child. She said the tragic losses of their two children likely was what drove them apart.
“I believe a child dying between a couple either makes you stronger or it doesn’t,” she said not long after Prince’s death. “For me, it was very, very hard to move forward and for us as a couple I think it probably broke us.”
The celebrity couple divorced in 2000.
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THAT is an AWESOME way to put it, Skooz! That was a really nice post. Thank you!
(No huge Prince fan, BTW.)
What you said should apply to ALL of us, EVERY day, but MAN, that is NOT easy, LOL! :)
I had a late baby too, when I was 40. They were big on making me have an amneo too, as I was “high risk”. I finally told the nurse to write in the chart that I was refusing for “religious reasons” and they finally let it be. The little nurse that was helping me that day said she was glad I refused, that she had an amneo with her baby, and fretted so much about it, that she miscarried (sad). God blessed us with a beautiful bouncing baby boy, perfectly healthy.
LOL! Good comeback!
Most geniuses are.
The likely reason for his drug use was that from wearing heels and dancing for so long, he destroyed his hip joints. He needed hip replacements, which he refused, for at least 10 agonizing years.
It was also known that as a child he had epilepsy, but there was no mention of it as an adult.
He left no known children. And his vault is believed to contain an enormous amount of unpublished music, but because he died instate, it may be decades before ownership is established.
LoL. An ounce would produce at least 20-30 joints if that many were smoked in a day there would be no time left to eat Twinkies.
Thanks for posting this. I remember this sad story and thought of it again when Prince passed last year.
“I wonder though, how much an effect of lots of drug use has on miscarriages.”
In the case of the father it probably has almost no effect, in the mother who knows, it could be a good deal, but you know that junkies have babies every day.
But this poor child of Prince’s really had some rare dooming genetic disease, probably the type of thing that can happen to anyone, but almost never ever does. I remember this story when it happened.
Yep, bit of a dichotomy that one. I had similar arguments with co-workers back in the 80’s. One guy kept talking about how spiritual Prince was. I then said “dude, have you listened to his lyrics?” The words to “Darling Nicky” would strip the paint off an outhouse. Didn’t matter. The cognitive dissonance was strong with that one.
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At the time our oldest was born, the reliability of the amniosentisis test was something like 55% and the possibility of miscarriage was unacceptably high.
So basically I could flip a coin and get the same accuracy without the risks.
What a kind post. Thank you.
It's hard to die from an overdose of Xanax. It's easy to die from an overdose of opiods. You stop breathing.
opiods > opioids
Yeah why is it so hard to die from xanax?
My brother is a decent sized guy and he gets loopy if he takes .5mgs.
He has a small number the doctor gives him before he makes presentations at work several times a month. .25 does the trick.
In my younger days I maxed out at 20mgs in a day.
The farthest I got with opioids was that I stopped pooping. They have a serious effect on the digestion system.
Shoulder surgery, off the opioids in 3 days. I really didn't like that I was so "dopey", but on the other hand, pain sucks. There is a time for them, but they need to be controlled.
Somewhere on youtube, there's a tribute to George Harrison where a bunch of great musicians play "While my Guitar Gently Weeps". Prince is among them. He surprised me - he was an excellent guitarist. And a showman, which I already knew.
And the two guys from Steely Dan are good too.
Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others -- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
BTW, I have never watched the movie "Purple Rain". I'll put it on my bucket list. Oh wait, I don't have one.
Prince Performs “Purple Rain” During Downpour | Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show | NFL
He could have been shocked to death or slipped and broke his derriere.
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