tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post4259626613894943286..comments2023-04-13T02:22:18.693-07:00Comments on Hope, Interrupted: Perfect Little Big Boysarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15316131078833658090noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-13789062110662813152010-11-14T22:06:50.876-08:002010-11-14T22:06:50.876-08:00Your story is so similar to my own. Long labour. B...Your story is so similar to my own. Long labour. Big first baby. And a few other things as well.<br />I am just so very sorry. Over and over again.<br />xoHope's Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04984543289642681339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-5604833618982080212010-11-14T20:54:47.352-08:002010-11-14T20:54:47.352-08:00Hi Sarah
I've just started reading your blog ...Hi Sarah<br /><br />I've just started reading your blog today. Reading this post took me back to the autopsy meeting for our son. In our case, we had a previously unknown set of genes that stuffed things up. But apart from that, everything on the report said normal, normal, normal. The whole thing sucks completely, but when I'm feeling strong I can focus on how perfect our little boy Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-11601208286885601212010-11-14T19:01:19.367-08:002010-11-14T19:01:19.367-08:00I just can't even find the words. I'm so ...I just can't even find the words. I'm so very glad you were given hope but I'm also so very sorry for that perfect storm that took your boy. Your perfect little big boy. Sending love. xxJennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16614232173945249682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-91264884118311282622010-11-13T20:36:31.041-08:002010-11-13T20:36:31.041-08:00Oh precious Sarah- you are amazing. You did everyt...Oh precious Sarah- you are amazing. You did everything right and you did NOTHING wrong. I am so glad E repeated that sentence to you. <br />It was indeed the perfect storm with life shattering consequences. I am so very sorry my friend. I am thinking of you every day and hope more than anything that you will find peace in your days as you remember your perfect and beautiful boy. Sweet Otis....<brAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-12725346885098851512010-11-13T20:30:30.670-08:002010-11-13T20:30:30.670-08:00I am so glad for you. I know that sounds weird. Ev...I am so glad for you. I know that sounds weird. Even though everyone and their brother was telling us the doctor did something wrong, I still wanted it to not be true. I so wished it wasn't true. I would like to know how I am supposed to be able to trust anyone again. I wish I knew where hoped lived so I could go pay it a visit! Much love to you momma!Missyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17215595176820577303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-55398132283889563902010-11-13T19:58:15.610-08:002010-11-13T19:58:15.610-08:00My heart breaks reading this. The perfect storm.....My heart breaks reading this. The perfect storm...it is just so wrong. I'm glad that you got some answers and that you were also given some hope.briannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03703767053224975771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-42221282937840375962010-11-13T15:47:18.727-08:002010-11-13T15:47:18.727-08:00Sarah - I'm so sorry there were so many things...Sarah - I'm so sorry there were so many things against your perfect little boy. I'm so glad you have E to remind you this wasn't and never will be your fault. <br /><br />I've had two c-sections and sometimes feel a fleeting sadness that I'll never experience labour but the overriding thing is that two c-sections has gotten my two babies here alive (Matilda was four days oldMaddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665878580598197034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-15789897913235448502010-11-13T15:30:38.289-08:002010-11-13T15:30:38.289-08:00oh sarah. it's so unfair. so many little thing...oh sarah. it's so unfair. so many little things. in some ways it's harder than if there had been one incontrovertible things. <br /><br />i'm glad they were so kind and caring to you. xxBethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12523875341438470968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-57171758083351413202010-11-13T15:19:11.775-08:002010-11-13T15:19:11.775-08:00There are so many things that are similar - oh how...There are so many things that are similar - oh how I weep for you and us and all of us.Merryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338478486624362745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-10245976396555199022010-11-13T12:31:49.769-08:002010-11-13T12:31:49.769-08:00oh sarah - i am so glad that there were no nasty s...oh sarah - i am so glad that there were no nasty surprises... that no blame was laid... that everyone was so very clear that this was not your fault, that you nutured and grew otis beautifully.<br /><br />poor sweet otis. he was perfect - we all saw that he was perfect. i am so sorry that he isn't here but i am glad that you feel some hope and that you are planting a glorious garden in his katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657300459504022413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-57958917676440564862010-11-13T11:37:11.056-08:002010-11-13T11:37:11.056-08:00I am glad you feel some hope now. After the speci...I am glad you feel some hope now. After the specialist told me it was not my thyroid disease that caused Charlotte's death I felt a huge weight lift from my shoulders. We mothers worry it is our fault, when really it's just nature, and a combination of things that went wrong. Thinking of you and Otis.Angelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14426410846093760653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-9785804948529782952010-11-13T10:40:12.497-08:002010-11-13T10:40:12.497-08:00hi Sarah, love. Oh, Otis, so perfect, so perfect, ...hi Sarah, love. Oh, Otis, so perfect, so perfect, perfect. <br /><br />I have this real visceral image of you and E, and E speaking those words to you, sarahlu. It's really so touching and so true. <br /><br />I am goad you feel some hope, some sense of the future and its beauty - in those bulbs, in Otis, in his future siblings. <br /><br />Walking along with you on this path, dear friend, zubeldiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09540610591568098744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-79115161717260448362010-11-13T10:12:54.486-08:002010-11-13T10:12:54.486-08:00crying here, in colorado, about those texts that i...crying here, in colorado, about those texts that i got 2 months ago announcing his perfection. i remember the clarity with which you shared that: he. is. perfect.<br /><br />he was a perfect baby in a perfect storm and i'm just so heartbroken that those things could line up like that, that they did.<br /><br />sarah--it was not your fault. it was not anything you did before or during æhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14449465426164797433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-67808974838149400272010-11-13T09:49:32.861-08:002010-11-13T09:49:32.861-08:00crossing over sarah.
what are you planting? what ...crossing over sarah.<br /><br />what are you planting? what a hopeful tribute, joining in with the seasons, making the world look brighter.<br /><br />love again.<br /><br />h.xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-82413088185043531452010-11-13T09:44:47.735-08:002010-11-13T09:44:47.735-08:00oh beutiful girl,
he was perfect and you knew it,...oh beutiful girl,<br /><br />he was perfect and you knew it, you're his mum and you saw that in him. poor Otis, poor little (big) lamb caught up in that perfect storm. what kind hopeful words the fetal pathologist spoke, I am glad you got to hear them. <br /><br />I love you.<br /><br />h.xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760134077739485292.post-23153336261713624892010-11-13T09:38:20.256-08:002010-11-13T09:38:20.256-08:00We are planting bulbs today. Hundreds of them, th...We are planting bulbs today. Hundreds of them, throughout our front and back yards. Honoring our baby boy and his departure from this world, just two short months ago. Remembering him and putting bulbs into the ground. It feels like a very hopeful, symbolic act for the day.sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15316131078833658090noreply@blogger.com