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Kourtney McGee.

FORT WORTH -- Kourtney McGee was on medication and barely remembers holding her son, Jacob, minutes after he died at birth.

"All I remember is they told me your baby is gone," McGee said.

Her pain was made worse after she claims the hospital threw the stillborn child's body in the laundry.

"I was hurt. I didn't know what to do. I was scared. Terrified," she said. "The worst thing ever has happened in my life."

So McGee and her family began planning the baby's funeral. But the body couldn't be found. In a lawsuit her attorney says that for 19 hours the baby was missing, until the hospital staff at Huguley Memorial Medical Center in Fort Worth realized it.

"They told us that the baby, that the cleaning lady was sent up there later that day and I guess she didn't recognize there was a baby wrapped in a blanket and she put him in the laundry and he was shipped off," McGee said.

The funeral director says boy's body was picked up from a commercial laundry facility.

According to the lawsuit, the body was tossed in with the dirty laundry and severely disfigured.

"I think it's so very wrong because I wanted an open casket to say my last goodbyes," McGee said. "And I honestly still don't know if that's my son in that casket. I was just told."

The hospital through it's attorney says it's sympathetic to McGee and the family's loss, but says this case is not worthy of a lawsuit and will fight the allegations vigorously.

McGee says she wants the hospital to be more careful in the future.

"I just hope it doesn't happen to anyone else. I really do," she said.