Our unexpected journey... and our maternity photos 🌸

💚Loving Lilly 💚

“ It all started August 27th 2018, we where 12 weeks and 4 days pregnant. We went in for our NT scan, it started and ended in a matter of minutes.

We felt something was wrong by the way our tech was acting. She took us to a room and we waited..

A doctor came in and after moments of hesitation told us our baby didn’t have the top of its skull....And that she had Anencephaly... At that moment our world crashed around us. We went though emotions we have never known...

Over the next couple days we went to more doctor appointments, and meetings. She was diagnosed incompatible with life.. They said she won’t live and if she does it wouldn’t be for very long...They then gave us our options....terminate or carry to term.

We chose to carry to term, And leave everything in God’s hands. This was our baby no matter what.

Since that day nearly 6 months have past and they have been the craziest months of our lives, the most emotional, life changing and eye opening, but we wouldn’t trade them. We have made memories, loved harder then we knew we could and soaked in our time, we have grown so much and taught our other children and hopefully other people of what unconditional love is.

Our baby has changed our whole world and she hasn’t even been born yet. We are nearly 35 weeks pregnant now with our Lilly and time is nearing for her grand entrance.

We don’t know what lies ahead for us in the coming weeks other then the overwhelming joy of meeting our angel and then the overwhelming heartbreak that will follow.. But for now we will soak in everyday and make as many memories as we can and love her as hard as we can and keep choosing LIFE and LOVE!!

My photographer was willie+Rose photography by Sarah Caitlin you can find her and her work on Facebook, to follow our story- our baby girls group is called- Loving Lilly, an Anencephaly Journey on Facebook.

A note to our photographer- Thank you from the bottom of our hearts sarah for helping us make and capture these memories and moments. We won’t ever get these times back and I am so beyond thankful you have been there to freeze time for us. We will have these and the others that are yet to come, when she is gone to cherish forever 💚