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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please help me process this, I don't know where else to ask. In Dec my 10 month old son died after a brutal battle with a heart defect. He never left the ICU in all of that time. My husband and I went to great lengths to get pregnant after many fail attempts and finally got pregnant with twins after IVF abroad.

I am now pregnant naturally with a miracle due exactly 9 months from his funeral. Obviously we are still in shock and disbelief with a host of complex emotions and feelings. I had a fetal echo to check out the heart this week and it came back normal and healthy. So I posted that much on Facebook. Everyone was incredibly supportive about it. I also had some "Praise God" and "Thanks be to God" on my post. I don't get it. These are people that prayed fervently for my son to be healed. [b]Why would I thank god for creating this healthy heart when he gave my son a defective one? [/b]I'm so irritated by this and I've been thinking about it all day. On one hand I almost see it as a pat saying like "awesome" or "yay". I just don't understand this thought process. Help me understand and I mean that in a genuinely curious way. [/quote]

I don't quite understand what you don't get about this.  They're thanking God for your blessing.  Your new healthy pregnancy.  Your "miracle" as you called it.  He deserves the thanks and the glory because He did it.

Separately, you unfortunately lost your first son (my deepest condolences to you).  Your son's life, though short, was also a blessing.  Though your friends prayed for him to be healed, God had another plan...a better plan, and you may not understand it yet.

The two prayers, two praises, are separate.[/quote]

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