A Story Worth Sharing...

Today, my aunt spent the day with Sophia learning her vent care. Towards the end of their day, a doctor walked in and asked if it would be okay if a family could meet Sophia because their baby was about to have a tracheotomy. The mother was already hysterically crying upon walking into Sophia's room because of the fear for what may lay ahead for her baby. Then my baby just shined. Tammy said she hammed it up for that family. She was all smiles and laughing. My aunt swears that Sophia was trying to show that mother that everything will be okay. In that moment, my sweet baby was able to bring a smile to that mother's tear covered face. In that moment, Sophia's smile was able to soothe the fearful mind of a distraught mother. When my aunt told me this story, my eyes immediately filled with tears and my throat lumped up. I, in that moment, was so proud of my baby girl's strength for she knew a smile was all that mommy needed. Then I got to thinking, I remembered how devastated I was to see my sweet baby after for trach surgery. How helpless and fearful I was for what my baby had and will have to go through. I was thinking how wonderful it would have been to meet a baby like Sophia to reassure me everything was going to be okay. Then it dawned on me, I have that sweet Sophia and she in fact did let me know everything was going to be okay. As you may recall, Sophia developed facial palsy at 3 weeks of age. 3 days after her first full smile. I was heartbroken to think that that smile was stolen from me. It wasn't until the week after Sophia's trach surgery did that smile start to reappear. In thinking back, I believe with my whole heart that that smile came back to me in one of the worst times of my life and it came back across my sweet child's face to let her scared and anxious mommy know what "Everything will be OKAY". Now, I am so grateful and blessed in knowing that that same smile can make another mommy feel relief in knowing we are making the right choices for our babies and that in the end...everything will be okay.