Hard is Hard
"You can do hard things." A little rainbow baby It's such a simple phrase that I heard while I was pregnant with Paisley. We were roughly 4 months past losing our honeymoon baby and here we were expecting. Could we go through the worst case scenario again? Were we mentally ready to handle this? We wanted so desperately to be excited and dream about the little person I was carrying, but we knew the possibility of this dream being shattered like fine china falling onto a tile floor. The reality of everything was hard. Mid-way through the pregnancy is when we received the diagnosis of vasa previa, 100% fatal if not caught before birth. It was a hard diagnosis to hear, but we caught it. We were prepared. We were armed with information and a plan. It was hard to take it all in, but someone said, "You can do hard things." With that mind-set we continued on. While my pregnancy continued I had a conversation with a close fri...