Wave of Light 2021
I posted this on my social media pages tonight...and felt like it deserved its own post here too. It’s 7pm CST on October 15th…National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. 1 in 4 pregnancies result in a loss. 1 in 160 result in a stillbirth. Never in a million billion years did I think we’d be a statistic for both of these. You hear these statistics and acknowledge them, feel sadness for those losses, but deep down you think, “That happens to other people. It won’t happen to me.” …until it does. And shatters your world. 3 years ago we had just received the most devastating, fatal prognosis for our sweet boy at his 19 week ultrasound. Something that never even crossed my mind that could happen to us…but then it did. No one should ever have to bring their baby home in anything but a carseat…but we did. A teeny, tiny little urn instead of the carseat we had ready to go that safely housed his older brother and sisters. And, if I’m being completely honest, life has never been the s