Posted on 01/30/2010 5:22:44 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Carrollton couple celebrate the ordinary miracle of a daughter's birth
12:25 AM CST on Saturday, January 30, 2010
By LEE HANCOCK / The Dallas Morning News
lhancock@dallasnews.com
Editor's note: Last summer, The Dallas Morning News chronicled the journey of the Laux family, who faced death even as they expected new life. Here is an update on what has happened since.
Deidrea Laux couldn't believe she was shoe shopping that morning, exactly a year after she and her husband, T.K., lost their baby Thomas. Yet there she was, pregnant, pushing back tears and prowling for something outrageous in a size 9.
She grabbed her BlackBerry, speed-dialed her best friend and blurted: Had she just lost her mind in the high-heel aisle of an Addison shoe warehouse? In all her 39 years, Deidrea had never owned a pair of red shoes, much less longed for flashy patent-leather wedges. Yet a pair of scarlet sandals felt like the one thing that might distract her from her grief for her firstborn son and her fears for her unborn baby.
Until she and her husband lost Thomas to a genetic anomaly called trisomy 13, the Carrollton couple were conventional suburban newlyweds. T.K. was a big, goateed, wisecracking electrical technician 12 years older than Deidrea. Unflappable and funny, Deidrea was a project manager for an office-furniture firm. They met scuba diving, married in August 2007 and were soon ecstatic to be expecting a child.
Then routine tests revealed Thomas' fatal condition. The Lauxes chose to continue the pregnancy. They enlisted a hospice nurse and recruited their families and church community to help make their child's life as meaningful and comfortable as possible. They also allowed a reporter and photographer from The Dallas Morning News to document their journey, hoping to
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U-bammi celebrates every day the miracle of his “natural born citizenship”.
What a beautiful story. Thanks for sharing it.
I grew up in Del Rio and visited Alamo Village many times.
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If only all children could be so appreciated, loved and cherished as this little one.
She’s gorgeous, and she shares my oldest daughter’s birthday! Best wishes to Isabella and her family.
My husband's cousin married a woman who had lost her first husband in an accident. They had had a daughter, so she brought her daughter to the marriage. They decided to start their own family too. They had a little boy who only lived a few hours and they were heart broken. They tried again right away. This time they had a baby girl, who lived a little over a day. How they had the heart to try again I'll never know, but they did. This time they had a perfect little boy who is now grown with a family of his own. However, his dad died of cancer at the age of 42, when the son was about 14.
How do go on with having buried two husbands and two babies around the age of 40?
Yes, I teared up at the end. What a beautiful “ordinary” story and reminder that miracles do happen.
[Ezekiel Emanuel, eat your heart out . . . oh wait, it’s hard to eat stone, isn’t it? Well gnaw your teeth to the gums on your stone heart, then.]
I totally agree with you. After years of waiting, disappointment, and heartache the birth of a child is an extraordinary miracle.
I’m thankful that I was able to truly appreciate (and do so every day!) that miracle after the birth of our son.
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