All of those names listed in the title of that blog bring such a sting. We are Mommy and Daddy to a beautiful little girl but we will never get to hear her say that. And for us, being our first baby, our first pregnancy, it is so bittersweet. We are not the same people we were. We are parents now and our entire perspective has changed. Our lives were ready to revolve around-no, they WERE revolving around this special little person, and that has been taken away from us. And we feel like the circumstances around us are the same as they were before we were pregnant and yet we are not the same people. We are parents. Parents who looked forward to hearing Mama and Dada turning into Mommy and Daddy, even then Mom and Dad, and perhaps a little attitude in the teenage years with "Oh, Mother! Seriously, Father?!" But this side of heaven, we won't hear those words. I think that is why I so yearn for another child so soon. Because we are parents and yet here on earth we are childless. Everything about this seems so ironic and backwards.
~Shannon
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