{"id":5323,"date":"2011-12-21T16:51:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T21:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathyschiffer.com\/?p=5323"},"modified":"2016-09-30T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:00:20","slug":"a-sad-addendum-to-that-smallest-baby-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathyschiffer\/2011\/12\/a-sad-addendum-to-that-smallest-baby-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sad Addendum to That "Smallest Baby" Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"Sometimes the news is so painful, you just don\u2019t want to know.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few days ago, I wrote about tiny Melinda Star Guido<\/strong> <\/a>who, at four months old, is finally healthy enough to go home for the holidays.\u00a0 Melinda weighed only 9 \u00bd ounces at birth, and doctors really didn\u2019t expect her to survive.\u00a0 She was a fighter, though, and after successful treatment for an eye condition and surgery to repair an artery, Melinda faces a bright future.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But today I read about another tiny child, Joseph Bradbury.<\/strong>\u00a0 Joseph, who was born at 23 weeks, was a little bigger than Melinda\u2014he weighed 1 lb. 6 oz. at birth.<\/p>\n

Joseph\u2019s parents, Scott and Sarah Bradbury, had been trying to start a family for ten years;<\/strong> but Sarah was facing a medical condition, and every time she became pregnant, she miscarried.\u00a0 In fact, Sarah suffered eight miscarriages before giving birth to her \u201cmiracle baby boy\u201d in August.<\/p>\n

Beating the odds, baby Joseph has thrived<\/strong> in the care of his loving parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But now the bad news<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong> Scott and Sarah live in Portland, near the English Channel in the county of Dorset, in the United Kingdom.\u00a0 Last week they attended an Advent reconciliation service at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Weymouth, intending to go to confession before the Christmas holiday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Talking about his wife later, Scott reported, \u201cJust as she went into confession she gave me a cheeky smile.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> Sarah walked into the confessional alone; but\u00a0as she was telling Father Stephen Geddes how well her premature baby Joseph was doing, she began to feel ill and collapsed.\u00a0 A doctor who was present for the penitential service tried to resuscitate her until paramedics arrived; but Sarah died in the hospital from an undiagnosed gastro-intestinal bleed.<\/p>\n

Little Joseph, the miracle baby, made Sarah very happy in his short life\u2014but now, he and his father Scott face life without Sarah.\u00a0 \u201cAll Sarah wanted to do,\u201d<\/strong><\/span> said Scott, \u201cwas to become a mother.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon her.\u00a0 May her soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God rest in peace.\u00a0 Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

\u00a0
\nFor My thoughts are not your thoughts,<\/span>
\nNor are your ways My ways,\u201d declares the LORD.<\/span>
\nFor as the heavens are higher than the earth,<\/span>
\nSo are My ways higher than your ways<\/span>
\nAnd My thoughts than your thoughts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013Isaiah 55:8-9<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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