Insparenting

So Close is absolutely perfect for the Blog of the Week award.

Tertia in South Africa touches my heart so deeply today. And I’m sure that most of you will get the same feeling when you read what you’ll read.

She shared her heart about the loss of her first child, Ben, and how she has coped with the grief. I shed my tears while reading about Baby Ben. Every beautiful word Tertia wrote is a word of encouragement and love… So deep and graceful…

Another beautiful and precious thought in her post was about the nurse who had been with her through the difficult times when Ben was born. Here is what I took from her blog (I hope you don’t mind with this, Tertia) … :

I got an email in my inbox today from the nurse who took care of Ben while he was still alive, who prayed over him while he lay there fighting for his life, and who prepared him so gracefully for his death. She is the nurse who gently removed all the IV lines, the ventilator tube; who carefully wiped away the bits of stickiness left over from the Band-Aids and sticky tape, and who dressed him for the first and last time in a little yellow baby sleeper. She placed him in my arms so that I could hold him for the first, and last time. And once he had died, she took him from me again and prepared him to be taken away.

After Ben had died, she was so gentle and kind and helpful. She helped me with the terrible details of where his little body should go, which funeral home would collect him etc – the horrendous admin of death. She honestly helped me so much. She gave my son and I dignity in his death. I will forever be grateful to her for that. I thought of her often in the year after his death.

Please come over to her blog and read all about it.

Tertia, I don’t know what you’ll think about this. I mean, I have no intention to put this into depreciation. Neither do I have a crown nor a trophy, but I have this Blog of the Week Award. I thought maybe you can tell the nurse that this Blog of the Week Award is not only a tribute to you and Baby Ben, but also to her. This is her award too…

There are not many like her. She’s special.

So was your baby prince, Ben. He is still.

May he rest in peace in Heaven …

Thank you so much for this beautiful post, Tertia…

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