That being said... NO CHILD IS EVER A MISTAKE. My Jonathan and the 100's of his little friends and millions others who were born with Spina Bifida, are not "preventable birth-defected children". Most of us took our folic acid and did EVERYTHING we knew to do to have healthy pregnancies. There is NO sure fire way to EVER conceive a perfectly healthy child. So, we do and did the next best thing, we loved our children anyway, we love them a little more each day and we realize that we are BLESSED!
Here are a few links to some very AMAZING blogs on the topic this week:)
From Misty of
From Jill of
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and lastly, I'd like to share a blog by my Mom friend Jamie of
boy-are-they:)
So so so true!
ReplyDeleteI am way behind in reading blogs right now and just getting hit with all of this, and I have to say...
ReplyDeleteI COULD NOT AGREE MORE!!! There is NO WAY that Nathaniel is a mistake, any more than there is a way I could have tried any harder to have a healthy baby! (Believe me... my child before Nathaniel died at birth.. again after I had done EVERYTHING right...I was TRYING SO HARD with Nathaniel to cross every T and dot every I, and yet God still saw fit to bless me with a child with SB)
And I LOVE all three of the posts you have linked to. I am so glad that there are so many more women and families out there trying so hard to bring awareness to these FABULOUS kids than when we started this journey 11+ years ago!