Hope

We have friends from church that had a baby that was miscarried and she told me that they did not know the gender but felt that it was a certain gender and that they had named the baby. I thought about this quite a bit. Of course when we had Virginia she was 21 weeks when we lost her but we were unable to deliver her until 23 weeks. We named her, buried her, etc. Since we have lost 3 babies through miscarriage I have always assumed that they were girls. I told Tim not long after we were told that we were having another miscarriage that we should name this baby Hope. I thought Hope would remind us that even though at times along this journey of infertility that we have felt without hope--that it is really not true. We have a confidence and a hope that our little ones are in heaven safe in the arms of Jesus. We have been talking a lot with Josiah about this as well that our babies are in heaven and that because we love Jesus that we will see them someday in heaven again. It was pretty sweet too because dear friends of ours had their fifth child a week after our miscarriage and her middle name is Hope (we had not talked to them about the miscarriage).