My baby sister Carrie had a baby this week! She had a rough experience, laboring for almost 24 hours and then having to have a c-section:(. But she had a beautiful baby boy, Ethan Zachary Paul, he is beautiful and I wish that I could snuggle with him right now. Carrie and baby are both doing good, just getting used to being a new mom.
Abby decided that she was ready to start sitting up! She looks like such a big girl!
Here's more pics of the new precious babe! Zach holding Ethan...so sweet!
Baby Ethan...
Carrie holding baby Ethan...
For the last month or so I've been following an Instagram account that I found through a friend of a little baby that was having some huge health struggles. She was dying and needed a liver transplant. She received a liver transplant, but it didn't take, so then she started dying again but miraculously she was able to receive another liver transplant! She survived and started to get more and more accustomed to the liver and eventually her parents thought they would be bringing her home soon. She had one last surgery to close up the incision site and all was well until she started bleeding internally and passed away. She passed away on the same day that Carrie had her baby. Isn't she beautiful? Baby Kate. I'm not sure why I was led to this Instagram account or why I became so emotionally involved in her story. When she went in for surgery to receive her second liver transplant I couldn't sleep all night, I was praying so hard that she would survive and that the liver would take. I was so relieved when we finally heard that all was well. My heart has been grieving all week for this sweet family that lost their adorable baby. I just can't fathom the pain that they're experiencing because the pain that I've been feeling has been unbearable. I just hope that they've been lifted up in comfort by their sweet baby Kate's special spirit. I know that she is with them as they grieve. I'm so grateful for eternal families, this life is all too short and I can't imagine spending eternity without the ones that I love.
Baby Kate's mom noticed butterflies everywhere she went as Kate was struggling and found them to be her symbol of hope. When my kids found out about baby Kate they decided to draw pictures for her, little butterflies. We will send these to her family. Ashlyn wrote in her journal today, "Today I am sad because I heard that someones baby died. I drew a picture of a butterfly for her family."
Abby is so cute sitting up all by herself. What a big girl! Baby Kate touched so many hearts including mine. I hope and pray her family is being lifted through this trial also. What a nice thing for your family to send them butterflies. I bet they will be so touched by that.
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