Infant Loss Remembrance Day

I've had this post saved in draft since the beginning of the month. Matt and I have been searching for video of Georgia's birth announcement. We obviously never showed it because our sweet baby went to heaven. But, since today is Infant Loss Remembrance Day I really wanted to see it again as it is one of the few positive memories I have from that pregnancy. I think in our grief though we deleted the video and I am really sad about that.

However, I am so grateful we are doing so much better this year. This time last year was still such a dark time for us. It's been exactly 14 months today since we lost our sweet baby at almost 13 weeks along. That was the hardest day of my life and sometimes it seems as if it just happened yesterday.

What's crazy is that one in four women (and their spouses/partners) will experience stillborn, infant loss and miscarriage in their lifetime. Did you know that? It happens more than people know. Chances are a lot of people you know have experienced a loss. For whatever reason it is a very taboo topic to discuss which is disheartening because it is a very lonely and sad experience. No one should be alone in that.

I recently stumbled upon this and I just love it so much.

“We plot. We plan. We assume things are going to go a certain way. And when they don’t, we find ourselves in a new place-a place we haven’t been before, a place we never would have imagined on our own.

It is the difficult and the unexpected, and maybe even the tragic, that opens us up and frees us to see things in new ways.


Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart.


Suffering does that. It hurts, but it also creates.” - Rob Bell in Drops Like Stars

Even though Georgia's time on Earth was so brief, I can feel her and this experience working to create something beautiful. It's opening up dialogue and enable me to connect with so many ladies and reminds me to focus on what truly matters.

I want to celebrate the little life of Georgia Gibson. We all have stories to tell - even if our time on this Earth is so brief. She was more than a statistic, she was a child and I am so grateful for the time I had with her.