Leiann- Angel Baby

 I have received two emails today of stories. this first one was sent in from angel baby Emma's mom, from a friend of hers. She told him about the blog and he sent his story to her, and then she sent it in to me. This is the first story I've received from an angel dad. He is such a brave man and I am grateful for all the angel fathers who keep their angel children with them. Unfortunately in society these days, there's a lot of fathers who walk out the moment a baby becomes a part of the picture, or leave once the baby leaves too. And so, I want to personal thank all angel fathers who stick it out to their duty as dads. Here is baby Leiann's story:

Me and Taylor hadn't planned to have a baby at all. We hadn't even been together very long. Five months, I think. Like I said, not long. Tay had started feeling really bad and said she thought she had the flu. She called into work a few days and just stayed in bed. I asked if she'd started her period and if this was just period problems and she suddenly looked scared. She said she hadn't really thought about, but she was quite a bit late. So I went to the store to get a pregnancy test just to see. She took it and it came back positive. We scheduled an appointment and when we went, we found out she was about 5 weeks pregnant. Me and Tay were excited and scared and nervous, but VERY excited. We're both 18 and graduated so we didn't have the whole high school parent thing to deal with. We told our parents. Both of our parents were more excited than we expected and they said they would support us.
Tay's pregnancy was just fine. We went to appointments each month and found out we were having a little girl. Then at about 6 months 2 weeks Tay started having really bad pains that she thought were probably somewhat normal cramps. The cramps didn't stop for about a week and then her water broke, I'm assuming. She went into labor. Tay gave birth to our little girl at almost 7 months. She was stillborn. The doctor's said it looked like she'd been dead for a few weeks. I got to hold my baby girl though. I would give anything to be able to go back and feel her kicking Tay's stomach. Or to talk to her. I feel like I didn't hold her long enough. I have a few pictures of my baby but those can never replace actually seeing her. We had a ceremony/funeral. R.I.P daddy's little girl. Nobody can take your place
Worst part? Tay didn't care. I couldn't even really speak to anyone for a while, she went out and hung out and partied. I'll see my baby again one day though.

 Leiann- You are deeply and sorely missed. It breaks my heart that you're gone from this world. But just know that your daddy loves you so much, and you will forever be his little girl. And someday, you'll be together forever. You're in a beautiful and safe place with all the other angel babies, waiting for their moms and dads to join them, and I just know you're watching over your dad all the time. He loves you and misses you.

I usually like to close my posts with the phrase "A mother's love never dies." But I am choosing to ammend it for angel daddy posts to this:

A parent's love never dies.