Precious Babies!!

Okay, so I was going through my blogs that I follow after adding one to my follow list of my good friend Mindy's husband. :) Well, I have a few craft ones that I follow to get ideas, etc. Well one that I follow had listed at the end of one of her blogs about a lady who had contacted her about a project she's doing. This mom is making eye masks for little babies in the NICU for any hospital she can. She had a baby that had been in the NICU and was not able to wear any clothes of any kind but needed to have her eyes covered so she decided to make masks. Well, she was wanting to have this idea spread so many crafters could get involved and you can bet I will be one of them. Here is the blog of the mother making the masks where you can get information on it and read her story www.mybabysbling.blogspot.com. She also has a blog about her little baby she lost....have tissue handy if you venture that way!
Well, of course reading her story tugs at your heart especially when you have friends who have gone through it! To add to it Madison woke up briefly while I was reading this blog and I went in to check on her and get her laid back down. Of course looking at my sweet girl falling back asleep the tears came on! So I decided I would blog about it! :)
It just is amazing, you would think being that you are raised to know that death is inevitable, everyone will die at some point and in your lifetime you have been to a few funerals. So, you would think seeing this happen with a baby you would be prepared for it. How could you be?! When a parent or grandparent, aunt or uncle pass away, they've lived; they have had their hard days and great days. They have lived through tough times and good times; had bad experiences and wonderful ones. Good moments and bad. You have gotten to know their personality, heard their stories and shared great times with them. A baby doesn't have that. When you find out your pregnant, you plan and prepare and dream of what it will be like as you learn and watch as your little one grows. You imagine all the things you will teach them; prepare to capture their first moment crawling, walking, riding a bike and thus driving! You imagine someday they will have their first day at school, first friends, first boy/girl friend, and first date! You think of the life the little baby growing inside you will have. Then the day they are born you hope to hear they are healthy and will continue to be healthy. To hear the words that they have something you don't know if they'll survive, how long they'll survive, how you will survive. All this assuming the baby was born alive. Some babies don't make it that far. I am thankful I have not had to face this challenge but so very heart broken for those that have!!!! It is so hard to imagine those babies that never had all those firsts, all those experiences! I am sure as with most unexpected deaths, and some expected, people turn to faith. I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason and God most certainly knows that reason. I imagine it would be very hard to understand that reason, but I know, too, that God does sometimes reveal some of that reason, it may not be immediate, but at some point I believe you will find it. I am just a ball of emotions when it comes to the subject of babies that pass away! I believe anyone that goes through that in any capacity is very strong!! I am now on a mission to try and help any one that I can in any way that I can when dealing with such a hard thing! A parent should never have to bury their child! Take care of all those sweet babies out there!

(Love you Tony, Laci & Betsy; you have great angels in Grace and Olivia!!)