Prayer Request for Baby Cox

Good morning Everybody,

I come to you this morning with a heavy and broken heart. As most of you know my twin sister Kamara had her second child at 24 weeks and it was very hard for all of us. Ryleigh is now doing amazing which is a blessing. Kamara always knew she wanted a third child and we were all so happy when she got pregnant again. She is 16 weeks along her third pregnancy. It seemed like everything was going well. Just to be on the safe side they saw a high risk doctor yesterday and got a sonogram. This was suppose to be a wonderful day where they found out the gender of their baby. None of us had any fear or worry because everything was going so well. The Tate family was all planned to celebrate with a dinner tomorrow night as we found out whether she was having a boy or girl. I was babysitting her kids during their appt. and started to get a bad feeling when 2 hours passed by without a call. I was anxiously awaiting the good news before everybody would find out that night. During the sonogram the lady doing it was silent and would not say anything. Then the doctor came in and said the horrible news right away. Their baby has excessive fluid throughout it's body. He said it was one of the more severe cases he has seen and he is a high risk doctor. It either has Turner Syndrome, Downs Syndrome, Trisomy 13 or 18. It is another baby girl. Based on the fluid they feel like the fluid is getting worse not better and are surprised she has lived this long. She has now talked to a couple of nurses and doctors and it seems like it is just a given that the baby won't live much longer. She is going to have to go into the doctor every week just waiting for her heart to stop beating. She will then have to be induced and deliver the baby stillborn. She was already told they will dress it up and let her take pictures with it during this time. This is going to be a very difficult time for our whole family. I don't understand why God has allowed her to have another difficult pregnancy and to most likely lose a child. This seems too much to bare. However, I know that God is good and powerful. Our family has an amazing faith and we will not let Satan crush our spirits. It is going to be hard but God is going to make some amazing things come from this I just know it. Kamara had to endure an amniocentesis and will find the results out on Monday. She will then be told which of the top things her baby girl has. However, it will not change anything or the fact that the baby is not going to live much longer. I know it is hard to know what to pray. I think our prayer is that if her baby is going to die that it happen sooner than later. That way she is not tortured every week waiting and watching as her baby is growing inside of her. She would never terminate the pregnancy on her own. She wants the baby to live out her life the way she is suppose to. She already can feel her moving inside of her and can see her little hands moving in the sonogram. I know I don't have to let all of you know how painful this is for all of us but especially her and Rod. Some encouragement is that her baby's nervous system is not developed and their sweet girl feels no pain. Plus, my Aunt Sandra died about a month ago and will be happily waiting in heaven to greet this precious baby girl. Please lift them up in prayers continuously.

Tami