Follow-Up

As most of you probably saw, a couple weeks ago Jeremy and I announced on this blog that we were expecting a baby. As those of you who read the post know, we were scheduled for our highly anticipated mid-way pregnancy ultrasound a few days later. As difficult as this is to write, we feel we need to provide some follow up.

As most people do, we regarded our ultrasound as the day we would find out the gender of our child, not as a diagnostic screening tool, which is actually its main purpose. That day, Jeremy and I very unexpectedly found out that our little boy could not, and would not survive. Last week we did lose our baby. There was nothing we, or our doctors could have done differently to prevent this--it was random, chromosomal bad luck.

Now, as we deal with the physical and emotional ramifications of this event, we are absolutely overwhelmed and touched by the love that has been shown to us. We have amazing friends and family who have gone above and beyond to lift our burden as much as they possibly can. We have felt them share our grief quite profoundly. We are so very grateful, and find such a miracle in the fact that these people are capable of warming our hearts in the face of what has been the hardest experience of our lives. When at first I didn't know how I could ever get through this, I've seen that I can and will with time, because of my incredibly devoted, sensitive, caring, beautiful husband, and our demonstratively Christian friends and family.