Tag: Hope
Doula Support During a Difficult Diagnosis
March 4, 2024Traci Weaver provides doula support for parents who receive a life-limiting prenatal diagnosis.
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Our Counselors: Allen and Patricia Cooke
February 23, 2024Our counselors, Allen and Patricia Cooke, have joined our mission at Verity’s Village to support parents who receive a life-limiting prenatal diagnosis by offering emotional and mental support.
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What I Would Have Missed: Part 4
February 19, 2024When parents join our Verity’s Village community, they have often received a “fatal fetal diagnosis” according to their doctors. At Verity’s Village, we choose the phrase “life-limiting” prenatal diagnosis, as we know and our parents know that their babies have a time to be with their parents however long that might be. In the post […]
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What I Would Have Missed: Part 3
January 17, 2024When parents join our Verity’s Village community, they have often received a “fatal prenatal diagnosis” according to their doctors. At Verity’s Village, we choose the phrase “life-limiting” prenatal diagnosis, as we know and our parents know that their babies have a time to be with their parents however long that might be. In the post […]
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What I Would Have Missed: Part 2
December 12, 2023When we shared “What I Would Have Missed: Part 1,” we had many people respond to the love expressed by our parents for their babies with a diagnosis. A life-limiting prenatal diagnosis can seem so overwhelming to parents, friends, family, and others connected to mom and dad, and we can forget to focus on the […]
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What I Would Have Missed: Part 1
November 15, 2023When a parent is given a life-limiting prenatal diagnosis for their baby, we can mistakenly focus on missing out on the pain and avoiding the grief. No matter what decision is made, grief is unavoidable, but the focus on what a parent will actually miss if they terminate their pregnancy can be life saving: life […]
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Christi’s Story: “What if your baby lives?”
October 20, 2023Many of our stories come from our Verity’s Village online community, but the presence of the grander community affected by a prenatal diagnosis is larger than our online community. Each of us are in cities with others who have been given a diagnosis or are caring for a child who received a diagnosis. In my […]
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Kieran’s Story: Ectopia Cordis
June 14, 2023Many times, we link to diagnosis stories on various blogs, newspapers, or even medical sites. This Wednesday, we are privileged to share the story of Kieran on our own blog. In November 2014, Kieran’s family received a prenatal diagnosis, learning their little girl would be born with ectopia cordis. Ectopia Cordis is a condition that […]
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Kori’s Story: Jacklyn’s Journey
December 5, 2022Jacklyn’s Journey began in March of 2021 when we found out that we were pregnant with our 3rd baby girl. I went in for a regular anatomy ultrasound around 20 weeks, and it was discovered that our baby girl had some markers pointing to a possible genetic condition. She had a large hole in her […]
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Logan’s Story: Peace in the Storm
May 6, 2022In December 2021, Logan P. shared with our community her story of heartache to hope. She has given us permission to share this story of her peace in the storm with you below: Hi everyone, so I was asked to share this with you! I hope that it will uplift and inspire you! So I […]
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