In June of 2017, I found out I was pregnant with my fourth child. My husband and I were so excited to add to our family. My oldest was hoping for a baby sister as she has two younger brothers. Our excitement quickly turned to heartache when an ultrasound at 12 weeks revealed that our baby had a cystic hygroma and the start of hydrops.
A blood test revealed that our unborn baby girl had Turner syndrome, and because of the complications that she was presenting, she only had a 1% chance of making it to birth. We decided that her name was going to be Aletheia (which means truth) Hope Arete (which means virtue). I knew I would need to cling ...