Meet beautiful Kate and her adorable family. As Kate knows.. I am not so great with words (some would even say I'm rubbish with them)... so I'm going to use her beautiful words for this blog post, and I will simply finish up with just how grateful I feel to have met her and to be invited to share this journey with them x
“When
we first started trying for a family about 8 years ago, my Nana was
still alive. She knew how much having children meant to Michael and I.
She passed away at the start of 2010
when we were about 18 months into trying and not succeeding for our
first. We started fertility treatments that year, not long after she
passed away. She was my last remaining grandparent.
It was a
long and extremely emotional year, probably one of the worst of my life.
The grief I experienced from the constant negative pregnancy tests was
overwhelming. That locket I am wearing was one of Nana's which I was
given after she passed. I put inside it a pendant of St. Gerard Majella
who is the patron of expectant mothers. That pendant we also found
within her jewellery collection. I wore that pendant/locket all year
through our fertility treatments and prayed to my Nana to help us fall
pregnant. In October 2010 after 2.5 years trying to conceive, we finally
fell pregnant. We were going to name the baby after my Nana if it was a
girl but we ended up with our beautiful boy Hayden instead.
I
have been saving her name for 6 years and we are having a girl this
time. She will be named after one of the most beautiful ladies I have
ever known.
That image of the three of us with Hayden touching
the locket means more to me than could be imagined by a photograph. It
represents, for me, the full circle we have come as a family, from
infertility to our first beautiful child and now this last baby to
complete our family.
Thank-you Mandii for intuitively knowing the meaning behind that pendant and for capturing the perfect memory for us.”
ps. if you recognise Kate it's because she's the talent behind Kate Veronica Photography and I've quietly stalked her for years as I love, love, love her work! I promise you will too.
