Remembering our babies

Oct. 15th is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day, in honor of that day a wonderful scrap designer that I know made a kit to share with everyone for free. I took advantage of this offer and made this layout. My son and daughter-in-law got pregnant last year with twin girls, they picked out their names, Meeka Anne and Madison Rhea, the doctors insisted on calling them Baby A and Baby B, Baby A was always the most active when it was sonogram time and the kids decided to name her Meeka Anne, Anne after my daughter-in-law since she was always doing something, Baby B was to be Madison Rhea since she was the lazy one during the sonogram, Rhea after my son, they chose to use both their middle names but just changed Ray to a girl's spelling. Well on a routine OB visit with the high risk doctor on Valentine's Day of this year we were told that Baby A had died, our entire family was devastated by this news. The kids really took it hard and had some rough time to get through together, as the mother all I could do was sit back and offer as much support as a grown son will take and be there for both of them when they needed me, my husband was a big source of strength for me and for the kids also.

Beth continued to carry both twins for the rest of the pregnancy and delivered them 6 weeks early, Madison needed a little help at first and was in the NICU for 10 days but she is a trooper and came home to us after those few short days, at the time it seemed like forever but I am so grateful that she got to come home to her family. My son did a lot of growing up during that pregnancy and I am very proud of him for that, somewhere along the way he went from being the son who was not always the most responsible guy around to being the man he is now. Our Maddygirl is now 5 months old and very healthy, we are all very grateful that we have her in our lives everyday but Meeka will always be in our hearts, when Madison is old enough to understand the kids plan on telling her about her twin sister, that will be a very difficult talk I am sure but I know they will handle it with grace.