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MEMORIAL FOR JESSICA JADE.

This memorial is for our daughter Jessica Jade.
Our beautiful little girl had a birth defect called Anencephaly.

Anencephaly is a congenital birth defect that occurs in approximately one in one thousand pregnancies. Anencephaly is a neural tube defect, just as is spina bifida. Life expectancy for an anencephalic baby is anything from a few seconds, minutes, hours or sometimes a few days at most. We were told it was incompatiable with life, We will never ever forget the day we were told our darling daughter was not going to live.

As the malformation is usually detected during a pre-natal scan, parents are confronted with a choice between life and death. A choice often made with very little information of what is in store for them. We chose life for Jessica & she blessed us with 2 hours.

We found out at 10wks that Jessica had anencephaly and decided to carry her to term. Jessica was born at 7:36pm on Monday 9th August 2004 weighing 3lb 5oz & lived for 2 hours , she was so beautiful. She had a cute little button nose & a cheeky little grin. We will never forget Jessica, she will always be loved & we look forward to the day when we will meet her again.

'JESSICA WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU'

Jessica in her moses basket, age 4 days old Daniel saying goodbye to Jessica..

Daddy giving Jessica a cuddle.

Mummy saying Hello to Jessica, age 2 hours old..

Jessica's teddy bear casket..

Jessica sleeping with her teddy bears..

The picture says it all..

'WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU'.

Please click on the links below.

(Folic acid awareness) (A place to remember)

Anencephaly_Support, (A pro life support group.)Preventing Neural Tube Defects~.

Poems.

Don't think of them as gone away,
Their journey's just begun.
Life holds so many facets,
This Earth is only one.
Just think of them as resting,
From the sorrows and the tears.
In a place of warmth and comfort,
Where there are no days or years.
Think of how they must be wishing,
That we could know today.
How nothing but our sadness,
Can really pass away.
And think of them as living,
In the hearts of those they touched.
For nothing loved is ever lost,
And they are loved so much.

I will never forget the feeling
When my life was torn apart,
No matter how hard I try
It will never leave my heart.
I never got the joy
Of hearing her little cry,
I only got a brief hello
And then a sad goodbye.
She laid very still
As I held her to my heart,
My darling little Jessica
Why did we have to part.
The only thing I asked
Was someone to tell me why?
But no-one had the answer
Why this young life had to die.
Even though she's gone
I never will forget
The time we had together
Or the very first time we met.
Baby 'Jessica' knows I LOVE her
And I know that she's safe,
I never will forget
That beautiful little face....

"To Be With You Again"
We think of you in silence
And often speak your name,
But all that's left to answer
Is your picture in a frame.
If we could have one lifetime wish,
One dream that would come true,
We would pray to God with
all our hearts
For yesterday and you!

We cried tears when we learned that a child would be,
that our God had allowed you to grow in me.
We cried tears with our loved ones as they shared our joy,
and we thought about names for a girl or boy.
I cried tears as I thought of the things that we would do,
all the things that your daddy would pass on to you.
I cried tears as I though of each inch you had grown,
as I pondered the day that you would make yourself known.
Then to think of the world you must enter brought fears and again,
little one your mother cried tears.
Something's wrong, I can tell--once again there are tears.
I'll not get the chance of your love through the years.
Oh, the ache and the sorrow and all the pain,
And again, yes again my tears fall like rain.
But no-one had the answer
Why this young life had to die.
Then His peace comes to me as I think of you there,
gently rocking with the Father in His favorite chair.
Our God knew your days before you came to be,
and he knew little Jessica you would not stay with me.
So, I cry, but I know that when this life is done,
I will greet and embrace you my sweet little one.
We love you darling Jessica
Sleep now until we meet again.

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