Lori, from A Cowboy’s Wife, writes about “The Hole in My Heart,” and shares about a friend who just had a miscarriage and about her own four miscarriages.   It was an emotionally painful experience to lose a baby!

There are some things that always remain in a mother’s heart, and one of those things is the love she has for her child.  Whether losing an unborn baby, a young child, or an adult son or daughter, the love a mother has for her child is so strong and will never die.  (“Love never dies,”  1 Corinthians 13: 8, The Message version)

My mother had at least one miscarriage before I was born.  She passed away and I can’t ask her if she had more than one miscarriage, and her younger brother and sister don’t remember.  (My uncle said those were things you just didn’t talk about back then.)   I remember dreaming about having an older brother when I was young.  Oh, how I wished I had a brother or sister!

After my mother passed away and I was going through her purse, I found some papers in a zippered compartment.  One of those papers was a receipt for a D&C after a miscarriage seven years before I was born.  That was for her miscarriage of a child dear to her, and she must have carried that receipt with her, hidden in her purse, all the rest of her living days because her love for that unborn child never died!   I realized then that yes, I did have a brother or sister.  I believe that life starts at conception (go to Biblegateway.com, type in Psalm 139:13-18, choose your favorite version…maybe “The Message” or the “New International Version,” then “Search the Bible”) so I did have a sibling and maybe it was a brother.

I have several friends who have have lost adult children, and I can’t imagine the pain they have gone through.  But I do know that God is the God of all comfort, and He has comforted them in the way that only He can.  Their faith in God has gotten them through!

Maybe you’ve lost a baby or a child or someone close to you has experienced that loss.  If you have something you would like to share, please leave a comment.  Your experience might help someone who is going through a hard time right now.

The National Institutes of Health and Cryo-Cell International, Inc., have joined together in partnership to research menstrual blood stem cells as a possible treatment for breast cancer.  This exploratory research will use cutting-edge techniques to track stem cells using MRI, magnetic resonance imaging which is a non-invasive method.  What is really great is that even though up to now there has not been a way to do long term tracking of stem cells in a non-invasive way, there’s a good chance that will change.  Not only will using an MRI be able to track the menstrual blood stem cells in their relationship to breast cancer itself but it also could help in finding the best breast cancer therapy.

Treating Diseases is an area where cord blood stem cell transplants have been used to treat more than 70 diseases.  Thousands of lives have been saved around the world and that is so awesome!  And all of this is done in a noncontroversial way.  The possibility of helping countless future lives is endless.  Not only is this used for cancer but also for inherited metabolic disorders, deficiencies of the immune system, hematopoetic cell disorders,  and inherited erythrocyte abnormalities to name some of the diseases.

Cyro-Cell offers banking of babies’ cord blood.  They are the best established family cord blood bank in America, serving over 160,000 families worldwide with well trained child birth educators available for consultation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Abortion, Roe Vs Wade, Right to Life, Pro-Life, and Pro-Choice are definitely being talked about in the political arena.  I’m not one to write about politics, but there is something that I believe so strongly that I feel the need to write about it now.  I do not want to offend anyone, please understand that is not my style.

I believe that we can not play God, that life is in God’s hands – not ours, nor do we have the right to take the life of an unborn baby, nor do we have the right to do nothing when a baby survives a partial-birth abortion and just leave it alone to die.  In the state of Illinois during the past several years, there have been cases of babies (some healthy) who survived partial-birth abortions and were left to die on a table or in a soiled linens utility room. Click here to read testimony from nurses involved.

Nearly everyone has heard of the infamous case of Roe Vs Wade.  DID YOU KNOW THAT THE REAL JANE ROE IN THAT CASE IS NORMA MCCORVEY?  And did you know NOW she is AGAINST Roe Vs Wade? Click here to listen to Jane Roe, who is really Norma McCorvey, as she speaks against abortion on video.

Obama says that after teaching his daughters morals, “if they make a mistake he wouldn’t want them punished with a baby.”   A baby is NOT a punishment, though…it’s a precious little person! Click here to watch a video of Obama himself saying that he wouldn’t want his daughters punished with a baby. What about teaching that we are responsible for our actions and we do not have the right to take someone else’s life? (There are a lot of people wanting to adopt babies and give them loving homes.  That’s a great option!)

Most importantly, here are words from the Bible in the book of Psalms 139:

(David is talking about God)

“For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful (notice this does not exclude special needs children),

I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

Your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came

to be.”

God is the One who forms us, and we do not have the right to kill what God has created.