Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month

posted by Dana Silvey

   October has been Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month. In this post we want to remember those that we have lost through miscarriages. Our journey was a hard one and we still do not know all the reasons for God's purpose in it all, but we trust by faith His perfect will.

Below is a journal entry I did about six years ago to remember our little ones:

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                      August 23, 2010                                                                Monday

                        I just recently read a book "I Will Carry You" by Angie Smith. It was

                 their journey of delivering a baby that only lived 2 1/2 hours. It made

                 me think again of our own little ones who did not survive. I want to 

                 always remember them, especially their names and the day I birthed 

                 them.

                        Luke Jeremiah - November 5, 2008 (23 weeks)

                             Levi James - March 30, 2009 (11 weeks)

                             Joel David - February 22, 2010 (15 weeks)

                    

                     Plus there are two others we know of but there was not an actual 

                 body to hold. The first one was July 18, 2004 (2 weeks) and the next

                 was October 26, 2007 (8 weeks). Even though we did not know if these

                 two were a boy or girl, they were still perfectly made and formed by

                 God. There was life there even though we didn't see it with our eyes. 

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     If you have lost an infant or had a loss through miscarriage, I want to say that I am very sorry for your loss. Some people say that miscarriage is not a loss, but we know that life begins at conception. I would love to hear your own personal story about any loss you have had.

"For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb.

I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.

My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, 

and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.

And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me,

when as yet there were none of them."

-Psalm 139: 13-16