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Nick Wagoner, ESPN Staff Writer
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Sondra Williams, the spouse of San Francisco 49ers left sort out Trent Williams, introduced that the couple had a son, Trenton Jr., who was stillborn on Nov. 24.
Posting to her Instagram account on Monday morning, Sondra Williams stated Trenton Jr. was stillborn 35 weeks into her being pregnant, including that the couple misplaced Trenton’s twin earlier in her being pregnant.
“Thank God for permitting us to bond for 35 weeks and for me to beginning you so I might maintain you in my arms,” Sondra Williams wrote. “I’m at peace figuring out you’ll by no means must undergo.”
In the publish, Sondra Williams stated Trenton Jr. had been identified with trisomy 13, often known as Patau syndrome. According to the National Institute of Health, trisomy 13 is “a sort of chromosome dysfunction characterised by having three copies of chromosome 13 in cells of the physique, as an alternative of the standard two.”
Trisomy 13 causes “extreme mental incapacity and lots of bodily abnormalities” and the Cleveland Clinic states that trisomy 13 signs are “life-threatening and lots of circumstances lead to a miscarriage or the newborn passing away earlier than turning 1.”
Niners coach Kyle Shanahan confirmed Monday afternoon that Trent Williams, who has sat out the previous couple of video games due to a left ankle harm, had spent a lot of final week grieving the lack of his son.
“It’s one thing that occurred final week and he was there on the hospital along with her and obtained to fulfill him and say bye,” Shanahan stated. “And then he needed to cremate him on Friday. He’s been coping with that and he is working by means of it. We’re all simply attempting to be right here for him by means of all of it.”
Williams is the second 49er identified to be coping with the loss of a kid this season. Cornerback Charvarius Ward introduced on Oct. 29 that his 1-year-old daughter, Amani Joy, had died after coping with coronary heart issues. Ward sat out the following three video games after the Niners returned from the bye however performed in his first recreation since his daughter’s demise in opposition to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday evening.
During his Monday convention name, Shanahan was a bit choked up whereas discussing what Williams goes by means of, however famous that the Niners will do no matter they’ll to ensure Williams and his household have what they want as they grieve, simply as they did for Ward and his household.
“It’s onerous as a coach,” Shanahan stated. “It’s onerous as a buddy, it is onerous as a member of the family. It’s onerous for everyone. But we spend quite a lot of time with one another. That’s what’s cool a couple of soccer group. Whatever you undergo, the nice or the dangerous, we undergo it collectively.
“You can by no means escape that full grief, however I do assume it is good for these guys to have one other avenue to get out on the soccer discipline, to get round teammates and issues like that.”
