Anonymous wrote:My grandmother had a pretty severe stroke resulting in dementia. She always had this far away look and talked about her children, well her three children were now in their 50s and 60s. The children she spoke vividly of were two children a boy and a girl, the boy being the older child. She described what the children looked like and what their personalities were like. Well, about two years after my grandmother's stroke I gave birth to a baby boy. My grandmother passed away when my son was 2 1/2 years old. A month after she passed I was pregnant with a baby girl. It is now about 5 years after her death and my two children are exactly how my grandmother described her two children. My son has the same shade of shiny silvery blond hair that she described, he loves to sing and my daughter is rambunctious and chatty with long blond hair....While she had dementia this is all she would talk about, her son and daughter, and how active they were. I talk with my mother about this and in a way I believe that my daughter is my grandmother reincarnated, or somehow in her confusion, my grandmother could predict the future.
My mother used to always say that the relatives who are already in heaven pick out the new babies that are born into the family.
When my child was born, my mother reminded me (not at all surprised) that it was the same date (but not the same year) that my father had died (i.e. went to heaven).