My gut-wrenching Wednesday night

Wednesday’s are always busy, long days for us. We work all day, rush to church at 5pm to eat supper and socialize, take Noah back to the nursery, attend the church service, then stay late for choir practice. I love my church and am there any time the doors are open, but Wednesdays always take a lot out of me.

So last night Brad, Noah and I were eating dinner at church with some friends. We have a very close Bible Study class. I love each and every person in it and would do anything for them and I’m sure they would do the same for me. They are our closest friends.

During dinner, about 5:20pm, we got a phone call from a member of our class telling us that our friend, (who is 38 weeks pregnant) was being admitted to the hospital.

My first thought was-Yay! Baby time! Until about 2.5 seconds later when we realized something was wrong. She was scheduled to have a C-section next week and she had just been to the doctor for her last check-up….and they couldn’t find the baby’s heartbeat.

As soon as I heard that, I was up and out the door on my way to the hospital. I was so nervous all the way to the hospital. Could this really be happening??

It wasn’t long after we got to the hospital that the doctor came in and told us that the surgery was over and that the baby had passed away. No cord around the neck, placenta was still attached, there was no reason for it. No one knows what happened. She was 38 weeks pregnant with a full-term baby expecting to deliver next week!

I’m just devastated for them. I don’t know what to do or say or not do and say. Ironically (except there are no coincidences when it comes to God), I just finished reading Angie Smith’s book I Will Carry You. She had a baby that died two hours after it was born. So I feel like I know a teeny bit about what they are going through, but I still can’t even begin to imagine.

So I say all that to say this: We would all really covet your prayers right now. Please pray for our sweet friends and their families. This was all so unexpected. Pray for our class. We are all relatively young and don’t have that much experience with death, especially that of a newborn baby. This has really shaken all of us up. Most of us have babies of our own too, so it hits very close to home with us all.

And now that I have officially dampened your mood, let me cheer you up a bit…

I have officially decided that it’s impossible to feel bad while looking at that face!