Sadness all around

As we are getting older and I watch more and more friends or family members have babies, I'm also becoming aware of the things I never thought about years ago. Things like struggling to get pregnant, miscarriages, journeys through fertility treatments, or illnesses babies can be born with.

I've been fortunate enough to see so many happy, healthy babies in my family and circle of friends. It wasn't until a few years ago where these other issues really started becoming more of an eye opener to me. Especially when I started to open up to a few friends about our own struggle with becoming pregnant. While talking to these friends, I felt support from knowing someone else was going through all the emotions I was when yet another friend became pregnant and I became jealous of them. My heart ached for a friend who, after years of struggle, became pregnant but then lost the baby to a miscarriage.

But right now I'm at a loss of how to feel, or how to offer support to our two sets of friends who have lost their babies within the past two months. One was at birth, and the other just a few days later. I cannot even begin to imagine what each of these couples is going through, let alone what I could even do to be there for them or offer any sort of support to them. I've prayed over and over that they are able to find peace and comfort, that they are surrounded by family & friends, that they are able to gain the strength to get through each day.


I don't often post to Facebook about these types of things, but I couldn't shake these emotions and for some reason felt compelled to post about it.