7 years ago today we experienced our first miscarriage.
7 years ago today we lost our pregnancy innocence.
7 years ago today our first dream of having another child close in age to our son died.
7 years ago today we tried to understand why.
7 years ago today we tried to accept what had happened.
7 years ago today we tried not to give up hope.
7 years ago today we believed that we could get pregnant again someday.
7 years ago today we believed that we would get to bring another child home.
7 years ago today we never imagined where our journey to expand our family would take us.
7 year ago today we hoped and prayed that someday we would have the family of our dreams.
7 years later the pain of our first pregnancy loss is still here, but its softer now.
7 years later we are able to appreciate some of the good that has come from our experience with secondary infertility and loss.
7 years later we are doing our best to be grateful for what we have without forgetting what we have lost.
7 years later we feel blessed and lucky for our family, just the way we are.
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Thinking about you today.
It's good that you can find the hope after such a difficult time. Gratitude really does beget healing.
Thank you for sharing this important date with us, and all you've learned since then.
(((hugs)))