I have two close friends who are pregnant. One of them was due at the end of this month, another due in April. The one due at the end of the month has been through an amazing journey. In the condensed version, this beautiful young lady who has 2 boys with her husband got pregnant again, unexpectedly with now their third on the way. She didn't want a third child, but come to find out, this baby not even born yet has saved her life. Due to some headaches she started having during pregancy, (she already has an existing brain tumor also, not life-threatening), they went in to see what was happening. It was disovered through MRI and other intesive testing that she had an aneurysm that was life-threatening about 4 months into pregancy. They had to operate or she would not live to see the baby born. So my brave friend went through brain surgery while 4 months pregnant. It went very well..
But now she's back in the hospital, suffering from intense headaches that even morphine is barely able to touch. They are not attributing this to the surgery, however. So, I get the call tonight that they're going to induce labor and their little girl will be born sometime tonight. My friend who has already spent so much time in the hospital during this pregancy and in so much pain will be delivering a little one, about 4 weeks pre-mature. Good news is, the baby looks good inside mom so far.
Then there's my other friend who's pregnant for the first time. Her and her husband are excited beyond belief, doing all the soon to be mom and dad things that excited expecting parents do. They decide they don't want to know the sex of the baby. Today she had another appt for an ultrasound to hear the baby's heartbeat.
I get an email from them tonight. As of 4:30pm today, their baby no longer had a heartbeat. I can't even begin to imagine her sadness right now. She said in her email that for whatever reason, this was in God's plan.
So tonight, a baby is to be born while another one is taken. I pray for my friend who just lost her baby and will pray for the safe arrival of my other friend's baby tonight. Bittersweet tonight to say the very least.