We were very touched by the response of our church’s elders. The reason we told them immediately, apart from our relationship with them and need for prayer, is because we knew that our situation contained a number of ethical issues which we may need to engage them on. The decision about whether to continue with the pregnancy or not – fortunately, was never a question for either Rich or I. We believe that God is the author of life and we were not prepared to make a decision that would end a life. But that’s not the only decision to make in such a pregnancy. With all the technological advances of this age, there could be other decisions to make in terms of how far we should take medical intervention. We knew that the baby had to make it to viability (26 or 28 weeks) before these kinds of decisions were to be worked through… but they loomed on the horizon. We also recognised that we wanted to access support immediately in terms of dealing with grief, given that we were told to expect loss ‘any day from now’, and so we began pastoral counselling.
The purpose of this blog is to document the extraordinary life of our daughter, Sarah-Hope. Right from the 13-week pregnancy scan, Sarah-Hope was never expected to live. From that day we decided to embrace, celebrate and enjoy every day of her precious life that we were blessed with, even if this was only in the womb. This blog gives an account of her life, our journey and all Sarah-Hope’s life has taught us.
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