God’s will is a difficult thing to fathom. We know that it is never God’s intention for a child to need a new home. Indeed, amongst the joy of adoption, there is always an element of grief – for relationships broken, for all the things that were not as they should have been for that […]
I can’t believe I started this journey more than two years ago. Two years and I’m still not finished. But I’m closer—much closer.
Like all little girls, I grew up playing with dolls and fussing over babies. I even took my love of children a step further and working with children became my career. I spent all day working in nurseries and my evening doing voluntary work with children; it was all I knew. Just like any other […]
It was raining, and we were deliberately late. We didn’t really expect her to turn up, but there she was outside the station as pre-arranged with her umbrella and hold-all, so we took a deep breath and forced smiles, took the baby seat out of the car, kissed the little girl we had cared for […]
We were fortunate to have two healthy children and we wanted to have a third child. We prayed for the baby from the start and felt assured that God wanted this baby too as our prayers were answered immediately. Concerns were first raised regarding the health of our baby from the twelve week routine scan. […]
The following is a letter which bears testimony to God’s working in a couple’s lives whose baby had been still born. The letter is from the father, on behalf of him and his wife sent to a grieving couple who have lost their baby.
When health professionals describe women in obstetrics they use two numbers. The first number, on the left, tells how many live births a women has had, after this there is a plus sign and then comes the number of still births and miscarriages she has had. My numbers have always been in competition with each […]
I have a simple story. I was 6 weeks pregnant when I miscarried. Truly I had longed for our little baby. It was getting close to a year since we had starting trying for a baby that I finally became pregnant.
I found out that I was carrying a baby boy with Hypoplastic Left Heart when I was 5 months pregnant. My baby had a condition where only half his heart had formed.
“Do you have any other children?” is a tricky question to answer at times. So is, “Are you planning on having any other children?”