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My name is Angela Holmes. I am a wife to Robert, and a stay at home Catholic mommy to Isabel, Ian, Caroline, Cooper, and 5 babies in heaven, including Mary Grace who died in utero from Triploidy. I started this blog to update friends and family as we found out about Mary Grace's condition, and then after her death continued to write as an outlet for my grief. Our story has become one of ever-deepening faith, hope and love for God, even in the midst of loss. Praise be to Jesus!
Loving, devoted husband and father, and always willing to lend a hand to a friend, he helps keep our family on the right path.
Isabel, our nature loving 10 year old, has been a great joy and blessing of love in our life!
Our charming, yet mischievious 5 year old! He is ALL BOY!
She's 3 and she knows it!
Born sleeping February 28th, 2009 at 21 weeks. 8 1/2 inches, 6.5 ounces.
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Divine Mercy Closing Prayer
Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to Your holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself.
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My name is Angela Holmes. I am a wife to Robert, and a stay at home Catholic mommy to Isabel, Ian, Caroline, Cooper, and 5 babies in heaven, including Mary Grace who died in utero from Triploidy. I started this blog to update friends and family as we found out about Mary Grace's condition, and then after her death continued to write as an outlet for my grief. Our story has become one of ever-deepening faith, hope and love for God, even in the midst of loss. Praise be to Jesus!
Robert
Loving, devoted husband and father, and always willing to lend a hand to a friend, he helps keep our family on the right path.
Isabel
Isabel, our nature loving 10 year old, has been a great joy and blessing of love in our life!
Ian
Our charming, yet mischievious 5 year old! He is ALL BOY!
Caroline
She's 3 and she knows it!
Welcome!
Thank you for visiting my blog. It means alot that you are part of Mary Grace's story. Please know that my viewpoint is that of a Catholic faithful to the magisterium of the Catholic Church. You may find that you disagree with this. I welcome respectful comments and discussion and want you to know that I pray for every reader of this blog: past, present and future. I ask that you pray for my family as well. God bless!
Friends who read along:
My Fertility History
April 2006: Baby#1 born perfectly healthy after a textbook perfect pregnancy!
Nov. 2007: Start ttc Baby#2 and get pregnant in December!
Jan. 2008: Baby#2 is an ectopic pregnancy, beautiful baby on my right ovary :( Lost at 7 1/2 weeks.
April 2008: Conceive Baby#3!
June 2008: Baby#3 no longer has a heartbeat. D&C performed at 9 1/2 weeks.
August 2008: Emergency D&E after hemorrhage at OBGYN office to remove retained tissue from previous D&C.
October 2008: Conceive Baby#4, Mary Grace!
February 2009: Learn that Mary Grace has a fatal chromosomal abnormality after our 17 week anatomy ultrasound. Lose Mary Grace, February 28th. OBGYN performs D&E after delivery.
March 2009: Start ttc immediately.
June 2009: Try Clomid, 100mg CD3-7.
September 2009: Clomid round 2, 100mg CD4-8.
October 2009: Conceive Baby#5! Lose baby in very early miscarriage at 5 weeks.
December 2009: Go back to OBGYN to request recurrent miscarriage blood panel. Start oral progesterone after ovulation, and daily baby aspirin. Start Femara CD3-7.
January 2010: Blood results come back normal for me. Femara round 2, CD3-7 + progesterone after ovulation & daily baby aspirin.
February 2010: Femara round 3, same as last month.
March 2010: Blood results come back normal for Rob. Femara round 4, CD3-7, decide not to take baby aspirin or progesterone after O this month; this cycle is also a bust.
April 2010: Not doing Femara or baby aspirin. Hoping to try Fertilaid as soon as I can get my hands on some! Waiting to hear from NaproTechnology doctor I contacted.
May 2010: DH and I are both taking Fertilaid (a fertility vitamin blend) 3x a day for 30 days. Will schedule the NaproTechnology doctor appointment for the following cycle. May cycle = not pregnant.
June 2010: Starting back on daily baby aspirin, finishing out the remainder of Fertilaid pills and going to my first NaPro Technology doctor's appointment on the 15th! Did not ovulate this month...stupid Fertilaid!
July 2010: Completely med-free cycle per new doctor. SA for Rob and lots of blood work for me. May get my follicle study in this month if I'm lucky! SURPRISE BFP! I'm pregnant!!!
April 2011: Ian is born!
July 2012: Pregnant with another little blessing; due April 11th, 2013!
April 2013: Caroline is born!
November 2013: Holy cow....pregnant again! Due August 10th, 2014....breaking the "April babies" tradition!
February 2014: Hospitalized with a partial molar pregnancy at 13 1/2 weeks which caused dangerous complications leading to an induction. Baby Francis Marie, our 2nd baby with triploidy, went to heaven February 6th.
December 2015: Cooper is born!
Nov. 2007: Start ttc Baby#2 and get pregnant in December!
Jan. 2008: Baby#2 is an ectopic pregnancy, beautiful baby on my right ovary :( Lost at 7 1/2 weeks.
April 2008: Conceive Baby#3!
June 2008: Baby#3 no longer has a heartbeat. D&C performed at 9 1/2 weeks.
August 2008: Emergency D&E after hemorrhage at OBGYN office to remove retained tissue from previous D&C.
October 2008: Conceive Baby#4, Mary Grace!
February 2009: Learn that Mary Grace has a fatal chromosomal abnormality after our 17 week anatomy ultrasound. Lose Mary Grace, February 28th. OBGYN performs D&E after delivery.
March 2009: Start ttc immediately.
June 2009: Try Clomid, 100mg CD3-7.
September 2009: Clomid round 2, 100mg CD4-8.
October 2009: Conceive Baby#5! Lose baby in very early miscarriage at 5 weeks.
December 2009: Go back to OBGYN to request recurrent miscarriage blood panel. Start oral progesterone after ovulation, and daily baby aspirin. Start Femara CD3-7.
January 2010: Blood results come back normal for me. Femara round 2, CD3-7 + progesterone after ovulation & daily baby aspirin.
February 2010: Femara round 3, same as last month.
March 2010: Blood results come back normal for Rob. Femara round 4, CD3-7, decide not to take baby aspirin or progesterone after O this month; this cycle is also a bust.
April 2010: Not doing Femara or baby aspirin. Hoping to try Fertilaid as soon as I can get my hands on some! Waiting to hear from NaproTechnology doctor I contacted.
May 2010: DH and I are both taking Fertilaid (a fertility vitamin blend) 3x a day for 30 days. Will schedule the NaproTechnology doctor appointment for the following cycle. May cycle = not pregnant.
June 2010: Starting back on daily baby aspirin, finishing out the remainder of Fertilaid pills and going to my first NaPro Technology doctor's appointment on the 15th! Did not ovulate this month...stupid Fertilaid!
July 2010: Completely med-free cycle per new doctor. SA for Rob and lots of blood work for me. May get my follicle study in this month if I'm lucky! SURPRISE BFP! I'm pregnant!!!
April 2011: Ian is born!
July 2012: Pregnant with another little blessing; due April 11th, 2013!
April 2013: Caroline is born!
November 2013: Holy cow....pregnant again! Due August 10th, 2014....breaking the "April babies" tradition!
February 2014: Hospitalized with a partial molar pregnancy at 13 1/2 weeks which caused dangerous complications leading to an induction. Baby Francis Marie, our 2nd baby with triploidy, went to heaven February 6th.
December 2015: Cooper is born!
~ANGELA HOLMES © 2009-2015 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED~
9 comments:
Angela- You are in my prayers today. I hope that you can find peace today.
Still praying the same verse for you out of John that i put in your card for today...His peace is so healing. I pray you have a special family day and can rejoice over where God has brought you through this past year!
Praying for you and your family today.
Love you!
I am praying for you today. My mass will be offered for you and your beautiful saint in heaven. Thank you for sharing these pictures.
Angela, Thanks for sharing your pictures and in turn your memories of that little precious flower God shared with you for a brief moment. Love to your family she is watching over all of you in heaven. God Bless!
What beautiful pictures. I know this is probably a very hard week for you, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
Angela, my friends and readers are deeply touched by your post and would like to offer you a bouquet of prayers and thoughts. You have inspired us and showed us, with your beautiful pictures and writings, a pure love that resonates in Christ's light. May God bless you and your wonderful family for sharing this with us and bringing us a little closer to Him, especially during this Lenten season. Here is the bouquet...
From Flora…
I will offer one rosary per night for one month for Mary Grace and the Holmes family to add to your prayer bouquet.
From Terry…
The Holmes family will be in my prayers. In God's goodness and perfect love, these children are all being held in His arms, forever. This family is an inspiration for us all, they are truly filled with His grace. May the Lord bless them all the days of their lives.
From Loretta….
Angela,
My prayers are with you and your family. The love expressed through your blog is touching and inspiring. I have several nieces and/or nephews I never got to meet on earth. I know they are with Jesus waiting for us.
God bless you all.
From Mary….
Dear Holmes Family,
I was so touched by Angela's writings and prayers. Your closeness to Jesus is extraordinary. The story of Mary Grace (and the miscarriages) resonated deep within me, and my heart broke open a little. I lost my first child to miscarriage (April 4, 1979) and I thought the world had ended. Yet this is small compared to a 21 week developing baby. I will keep you in my prayers. I am so impressed by the depth of your sorrow, the wonder of your joy, and of the healing of Jesus. God Bless.
From Patti…
I wanted to share 1 Corinthians 1 : 3&4.
From Bill…
So sad a story....you can't help but cry for a couple with so much love to give, only to have tragedy strike so many times. We truly are fortunate for what we have.
From Kathleen…
What is so precious is to see how they love each other so much, and they see God's bounty and blessings in everything, even in their tragedy. Their example lifts the rest of us!! Thank you, Lord Jesus, for the Holmes family!
From Mary…
"Kathleen, please forward that I was very touched by Angela's writings and prayers. Her closeness with Jesus is obviously her most treasured gift. The story of Mary Grace (as well as her miscarriages) resonated deep within me, and my heart broke open little. I lost my first child to miscarriage and I mourned for a long time. Yet that was small compared to the loss of Mary Grace. I am so impressed by the depth of their sorrow, the wonder of their joy, and the healing of Jesus."
From Laurel…
Dear Angela,
Although I have not had to live through the heartbreak of a miscarriage, I have had several friends who have shared your story...I know that it must be like having a piece of your own heart die. Your love & courage are a true reflection of God's way in a world where "love & courage" are so distorted. Know that you now have a little angel watching over you from above, and that someday you will all rejoice together in Heaven!! Little Mary Grace will run to your arms and say "thank you so much for loving me like you did!". My prayers are with you all!
I've seen the picture of Mary Grace's feet several times. I just realized looking at these pictures, that she had your feet! How funny is it, we've known each other so long we can tell if a baby has their mother's feet! Her 2nd toe is longer than her big toe--just like yours! What a precious thing to know, if you had not chosen to keep her you would never have seen the tangible evidence that she exsisted and was part of you. What a sweet memory to have of my little "neice." She has my best friend's feet! Glad to see that the blanket is a comfort too. Maybe you can give it to Isabel when she has her own family one day...to pass down. Mary Grace will always, ALWAYS be in my heart. And as always, you are in my prayers. You are a shinning example of motherhood. And, as I've said before-you really are my hero. I truly feel blessed to have your whole family in my life.
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