I gave birth to my daughter, Anna, at 30 weeks on December 9th. She passed about an hour later. 

When we went to the doctors for my five-day postpartum checkup, we also had to get her birth certificate and pick up her remains. My husband and I love dogs but we have two cats. I have PTSD and constantly talked about getting a service dog while I was pregnant. We went to the animal shelter that day for just a little pick me up, we were just wanting to go walk some dogs and give them some love. There was a dog in there that needed to be fostered and he caught my husband's eye. 

I am normally up the spontaneous one but my husband said that dog was coming home with us. I was still very unsure until I looked at his paperwork.

This dog was surrendered to the shelter just MINUTES after our daughter died. 

He lost his family when we lost her. I know we were meant to go there and bring him home.