Anna mae

Anna Mae

2018 started with a birth announcement. Then a gender reveal. I was putting the grief of losing a sister behind me, 2017 was a year from hell and I was so elated to begin a new year with a literal fresh start of a baby. A little girl to complete our family in every way. 

We counted down the days until June 26. We had a scheduled Csection we were waiting for. Waiting for so much. Instead, on May 20 I headed to labor and delivery. Thinking possibly we were going to meet that sweet face a little early. 

We did. But it was too early. Anna was stillborn. I almost lost my life that day as well. Sometimes I feel like I did die in a lot of ways. A placenta abruption took her life before I even got to the hospital. There was no saving her. 

Her legacy goes on, #GiveLoveForAnna will be a movement that continues in her honor. Beginning with a blood drive. My life was only saved because of blood donation, needing 8 transfusions, platelets, and plasma. We have pledged together with friends and family, to donate, and keep other families from feeling this loss. I hope people continue to remember her and the amazing amount of love that she brought to the world. In her short existence she changed our lives, and her memory continues to change other people's lives in the smallest and biggest of ways. If you want to do small things with great love in her name, please share it with us on social media using #GiveLoveForAnna. It warms my heart to see the reach of her love around the world. 

Please follow the blog for living after the loss of our baby girl. Anna's story will never be over. Thank you for listening to it.