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Late Term and Child Loss
alliedoe
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First birthday/anniversay approaching-preg. mentioned
alliedoe
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I lost my twins at 22 weeks due to unknown preterm labor last June 8th. Their first birthday and anniversary is approaching. It's a weird position I miss them terribly but I am also very excited to be pregnant with our rainbow baby. I have always wanted 3 children and there are days I can't get over the fact that if things were different this would be my 3rd here on earth. My question for you does anyone know of a quote or poem for the 1st birthday or 1st anniversary in heaven? What did you do to remember your child/children on this day?
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Re: First birthday/anniversay approaching-preg. mentioned
I don't have a specific quote or poem. For Logan's 1st birthday we kept it simple, intimate. We were going to be out of town visiting my family 600+ miles away so the day before we left we took a small present (a solar dancing sunflower) and some birthday balloons to his grave. While we were away we had decided we would carve a pumpkin (He was born on October 28th just a few hours after DH had carved a pumpkin for my hospital room next to my bedside...) just for Logan. My mom bought a single cupcake for him too. DH carved the pumpkin with "Logan" and a star and moon since we always read Goodnight Moon to him. We lit it and sat it in the window.
It was nothing major. Like I said, intimate. But it meant the world to me. This will be a tradition that we will carry on with our children too. We'll always carve pumpkins for halloween but we'll carve a specific one and light it for him on his birthday every year.
*hugs*