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Lessons from baby loss - ‘God’s grace is sufficient’
Rebekah Watkiss thought she would not be able to get through the emotional and physical pain of losing her firstborn, but she says, ‘I discovered God’s grace was truly sufficient in each and every moment.’
When I fell pregnant with my son last summer, I never thought that it would end in tragedy and make me a member of the ‘baby-loss club’. And yet, when my husband and I went to the hospital for my first dating scan, we were given the unexpected and devastating news that our darling baby had a fatal neural tube defect.
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