Janie’s Story: Love Has No Limits
March 12, 2025Mama Bear Care exists to support mamas who receive a life-limiting prenatal diagnosis to provide them with support, education, counseling, and community. Each mama comes to our community with a different diagnosis and with a different story. Each baby has value, dignity, and life, no matter the diagnosis or the length of their little life. […]
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Mama Bear Marie: Holding Strong
February 20, 2025Thank you, Marie, for sharing your story with our Mama Bear Care community! We love to see your Mama Bear strength and spirit! Mama Bear Marie: Holding Strong Meet one of our Mama Bears! Marie is mama to sweet Azariah. Though she wasn’t given much hope after receiving a prenatal diagnosis, Marie gave birth in […]
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Dee’s Story: Every Story Is Different!
January 29, 2025We were so glad when Dee said she wanted to share her story about her daughter, Mattison, and her prenatal diagnosis of Trisomy 9. As Dee shares below, every story is different! Thank you Dee for sharing your story with our Mama Bear Care community! We love to see your Mama Bear strength and spirit! […]
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Mama Bear Care
January 29, 2025Happy New Year! As we dive into 2025, we are excited to share with you some things that have been happening behind the scenes here at Verity’s Village. As our leadership team discussed our care program for parents who have received a life-limiting diagnosis, we came to the conclusion that it’s time for a bit […]
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Mac Wilder Murrell
December 20, 2024ABIGAIL’S STORY… June 3, 2024, I received a call from my OB’s nurse practitioner. I knew it was about the NIPT results but figured that it would just be her calling to confirm that the sneak peek test we had done at 6 weeks was correct and that it was in fact a baby boy. […]
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Life-Affirming Language and Care
December 14, 2024During a pregnancy and at the OBGYN, we do not normally need to talk about life-affirming language. When a mama receives a positive pregnancy test, the medical staff immediately proceed to provide life-affirming language and care. This mama is having a baby! The expectation is not focused on ending a baby’s life; why would it […]
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Evangeline Renee Williams
November 15, 2024On September 25th 2023 at our 20 week antenatal scan we received unexpected news that our baby had a heart defect. I was upset but never once considered a genetic reason and assumed at worst our baby might need heart surgery after she’s born. A week later we were flown to a specialist appointment where […]
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Colette Cook Hasty
November 15, 2024NYSSA’S STORY… Colette was given the diagnosis of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and Trisomy 6p Unique. Before even getting a full picture of what HLHS was, we were told to abort our first child. We refused and chose life instead for her! We didn’t care what “could be wrong” and knew also, just because something […]
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Rosalie Walker
November 15, 2024Our baby was given a “lethal” diagnosis at our 20 week anatomy scan. We were told she had “agnathia otocephaly”. Her ears were where her jaw should be, she didn’t have a mouth or nose and she had one centrally located eye. Her head was smaller than it should be and her brain didn’t split. […]
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What Is A Fatal Fetal Diagnosis?
November 15, 2024One of the scariest aspects of being a medical mom or dad, especially for a parent who receives a prenatal diagnosis, is the unknown terms that are used to describe our babies’ conditions. One of those often used terms our parents hear is “fatal fetal diagnosis.” Pregnancy Care Centers refer to this as an “adverse […]
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