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This is wonderful news Helen! I will keep you in prayer! Such a blessing! 
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congratulations! This is wonderful and very surprising news!
We will be praying for you and your new life!
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How, how, how did I miss this! Helen, I am thrilled for you! Congratulations!
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I am delighted for you Helen!!!
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Yeah!!! Many blessings for a great pregnancy Helen, I'm so excited and happy for you and your family
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Ladies, thank you for all your prayers and good wishes! I'm very happy to have shared my news with you. I've updated the first post with the following:
I had my 14 week appt yesterday. I went in unconcerned because last week I had a terrible time with kitchen duty and food. I was pretty sure I felt the baby jumping around last week. I'm wearing maternity clothes because my waist has definitely expanded. I've had no pain or spotting.
At my appt. the midwife couldn't find the baby's heartbeat. She gave a brief try on the sonogram but preferred to send me to the hospital for an indepth look. At the hospital, neither the technician nor the attending doctor could detect the baby's heartbeat. Today, I have another appt to disuss my options. I have been taken by surprise by this turn of events. By 13 weeks everyone breathes a sigh of relief -- especially with continuing sickness. Here I am well into my fourteenth week.
I ask for prayers. A few decisions need to be made. After years of adoption questions and struggles, even though miscarriage is tough news to take, there is no shadow of a doubt concerning where I will find the Will of God. To me this is a great consoloation. I know where to fix my heart and there is no point in arguing about it. May the Lord and His Holy Wlll be praised!
Deep down I knew I had to experience a miscarriage somewhere in my life. (I didn't think it was going to be this week!) Miscarriage doesn't make sense unless we think about the openness to life and all that it entails and the penance needed to make up for sins against life. Another great consolation is to be able to say to the Lord "I love You!!" even when He chooses something painful for me to endure. At least today, I say these words with no strings attached.
My two favorite verses right now are...God's Will is good, pleasing and perfect. (St. Paul to the Romans) and Job's line ... The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, BLESSED be the Name of the Lord.
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Continued prayers for you Helen. The pain of miscarriage is tempered with the sweetness of of the cross. Much love to you.
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I was just thinking about you this morning, Helen. Know that I continue to pray for you especially now during this difficult time.
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Praying for you Helen. It is sad and difficult; your trust in the Lord will see you through.
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May God bless you as you carry this cross. Praying for you and your little one today.
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My heart is with you today, Helen . May the peace of Christ be with you. I will be praying.
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I am praying for you, Helen.
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Praying for you, Helen.
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Oh Helen, praying for you and your little one  May Mary wrap you in her mantle of comfort and peace.
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I'm so sorry to read this update, Helen. You have my prayers.
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So much truth here...
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I'm so sorry, Helen. You and your family are in my prayers.
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Dear Helen,
Please know that you and your family are in my prayers.
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I am sorry, Helen.
The times of my greatest sorrow have also been the times of my deepest intimacy with Our Lord. I'll pray you press hard into Him right now.
with love and prayers,
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Dear Helen, you are in my prayers today. May the Blessed Mother give you comfort. This little one will surely be a saint in Heaven.
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I am so sorry, Helen and offering our family's prayers for yours.
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