One in four pregnancies end in miscarriage or stillbirth. In memory of Andrew(died 11-30-11, born 12-12-11)In memory of Innocent(died 3-31-11, born 4-10-11) And in memory of all the other babies who departed this life before drawing breath. May their memory be eternal!Feel free to leave the name(s) of your sweet baby(ies) in the comments.
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New Additions
I want to thank Jamie for generously sharing photographs of her beautiful baby, Gabriel (see photographs page) and his birth story. Gabriel died in the womb at about 17 1/2 weeks and was born a few days later (18 weeks) after induction in the hospital.Also, a belated thank you to Amelia for sharing lovely photographs … Continue reading New Additions
Joshua
A big thank you to Makayla for sharing the story of her son Joshua, born too soon at 21 weeks and 3 days. Joshua's photos are on the Photographs page and his story (and a few additional photographs) are on the Your Stories page.May Joshua's memory be eternal!
Another resource
Thank you to Kyra for pointing out the existence of a pregnancy loss resource page on the site of Holy Trinity OCA church in East Meadow, NY. It includes services for memorial and burial of miscarried and stillborn infants. I have added this to the Prayers and Liturgics page.
New story and photo
A big thank you to Amber for sharing the story of her baby's birth with us. Amber discovered at 9.5 weeks that her baby had departed this life at 7 weeks, 4 days. She opted to wait for her body to deliver naturally and did at 11 weeks, 5 days. She also generously shared a … Continue reading New story and photo
Photographs update
I have just added photographs of a beautiful 19 week baby, Walter, to the photographs page. His mother Lexi went into labor and delivered him early just a few weeks ago. His story is told on Life Site News and while there are quite a few photographs there, there are more on his mother's photography … Continue reading Photographs update
Temporary Note:
(6/8) I've reverted the photographs page to draft until a certain website calms down. Hopefully it will be back up soon. I'll keep monitoring the situation. Sorry for any inconvenience.[Update (6/9): I've just put the page back up since things have calmed down a lot. I hope that despite people's nasty impulses, someone will accidentally … Continue reading Temporary Note:
Yet another addition…
Candy has shared the story of her baby Kendall's birth (9 weeks, 5 days) and also two beautiful photographs which I have added to the photographs page. Thank you so much, Candy. May God comfort you in your sorrow.
New Additions
There have been some new additions lately that I would like to draw attention to:First, many thanks to Jennifer for sharing photos of her beautiful baby girl Ava May with us. Ava's photographs may be seen on the Photographs page. She was approximately 16 weeks when she departed this life.Second, many additional thanks to Amelia … Continue reading New Additions
Change can happen
I'm cross posting this from my other site. This was an amazing comment made by willfulmina this evening on this post (about Fr. Peter Gilquist's miscarriage paper):I just wanted to let you know that after reading this post, I had a long discussion on the subject with my husband, who is a seminarian at Jordanville. … Continue reading Change can happen
Lost Innocents 