72 results for tag: Stillbirth
Approximately two years ago I found myself instantly initiated into a sorority, if you will, that I had not applied to nor that I desired to be apart of. I went to a regular OB appointment one day before my due date; I was excited because I knew the baby would be coming any day. I even joked that he would be born on Christmas because I found out that I was pregnant on Good Friday. However, when my midwife looked into my eyes with tears forming in her eyes and told me that my baby had passed away, my world shifted, my reality changed, and everything I knew to be Ebone was no longer true.
I then had to decide, Do I stick with my original plan to ...
My husband Steve and I started our journey for a family in December 2013. We’d only been married 9 months, but we knew we wanted children (at least 3!) and felt like the timing was right. I found out I was pregnant only 3 short months later, and we were in happy bliss dreaming of the family we would have. For a month we called him or her by our funny nickname, made sure I did everything exactly by the book, and eagerly waited for my first appointment. We never dreamed our journey would be anything but perfect, so the news at my 8 week OB appointment that there was no heartbeat took us by complete devastating surprise. There is no ...
Shortly after our oldest son, Kason, turned a year old my husband and I began planning to expand our little family. After struggling with unexplained infertility with Kason, we did not know if it would take months or even years to become pregnant again. But in May of 2014, I became pregnant with our daughter.
My pregnancy was perfect! It wasn’t until a week before our due date that any worry invaded my mind. It was a Friday and I had noticed that I was not feeling her move as she normally did. I kept trying to convince myself that all was fine and that there was nothing to worry about. I thought maybe she was just running out of room and didn’t ...
In the Stillness
There’s a worship song that I use to sing quite often back in my high school youth group days. You might be familiar with it. The opening lyrics say,
“In the secret, in the quiet place
In the stillness You are there.
In the secret, in the quiet hour I wait,
Only for You, ‘cause I want to know you more…”
I had always thought of those lyrics as a portrait of the author rising early in the morning before the hustle and bustle of the day, cracking open her bible and waiting for the Lord to blow down fresh fire with His word. The Lord, God of all heaven and all earth, intimately making Himself present and known to ...
I believe our mess is our message and often, and as a result of experiencing difficult things, we can be a light to those around us who walk the same path. Our first loss was over 8 years ago. I copied many of my original words to share our story.
A few days after a routine (30-week) ultrasound, we were called into the doctor's office for another ultrasound. We went in and our doctor showed us some physical abnormalities that Addie had. We were really nervous and not sure how optimistic to be. He sent us to a specialist. The specialist pointed out a few more things that made us really nervous. He took some amniotic fluid and sent it off to be ...
I went to the doctor because I had been feeling sick for a couple of days, and my husband Jerimy urged me to go. To my shock and amazement, I was pregnant. I cried big, happy tears at the thought of a third child.
Seven years prior, after over a year of infertility, we had our son, Caiden. We never tried after that for another biological baby. Our daughter, Kylie, was adopted because we knew how difficult it was for us to get pregnant and there were so many children waiting for a family.
I told my husband that afternoon. I remember him saying, “How did this happen?" We were both in a such state of happy confusion.
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The story of our sweet baby Blair all began on April 2, 2011 when my husband Clint and I found out we were pregnant with our first child! We had been married for almost 5 years at this point and prayed about when to start our family and felt the Lord’s confirmation as we saw the two lines on the pregnancy test. We were so excited about the thought of having a child to call our own. As a Pre-K teacher, I have always loved kids and my students always became like my own children after teaching them for a year. Yet, I couldn’t wait to take care of my own after 4 years of teaching a classroom full of others. I decided that this was going to be my last ...
I’ll never forget holding up the stick with two pink lines on it as I watched my husband take the Christmas tree off the top of the car. In an instant, our world changed and we couldn’t be happier. Our precious little one we had waited for, hoped for, and prayed for was on the way. My pregnancy was hard, but progressed like we expected it to. Our doctor guessed we were having a girl and I’ll never forget hearing her daddy mutter “pink?!” as we walked out of the doctor’s office. Weeks later it was confirmed and we were head over heels in love with our daughter. Our hearts and lives were filled with so much hope for our future and for ...
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which
have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with them.
I Thess 4:13, 14
. . . A call came. An unexpected call.
. . . A call that seemed to come too soon.
. . . A call no parent or grandparent anticipates.
. . . A call, where on the other end of the line was the distraught voice of my youngest daughter, filled with ...
In 2008, I met the love of my life, Ken Stoddart. We had an exciting and romantic courtship and were married on July 17, 2010. We were beyond thrilled when we found out we were pregnant right after the wedding. I remember taking a pregnancy test 20 times, just to make sure. The feeling of seeing those lines was beyond exciting.
I called my sister, and asked her “What do I do now?”
She simply replied, “You wait.”
I had horrible morning sickness and only wanted to eat cookies and ice cream. My mother-in-law told me that the sicker I was, the healthier the baby was going to be. I had no doubt that PNut was going to be beautiful. We went ...
