Dear Father,

I felt I just had to write to you after my experience. After learning that I was pregnant, I saw my baby's heartbeat on the monitor for the first time.

Two weeks later, it was gone. She had died, and I was devastated. The pain was so very great I could not bear it anymore.

It had taken us so many months to conceive her, and then she went away. I had to go into the hospital to have her taken from me.

In the days after the surgery, I would cry out to God to please take the pain away from me or to give me my baby back.

I went to confession after 16 years of sinning. I turned to God instead of away from him. I think he rewarded me for my faith because two weeks after my surgery I learned I was pregnant again!

We now have a beautiful baby girl. I look into her eyes and see God's wisdom. There is no other explanation for her being in my womb only two weeks after my surgery. I was not even healed enough to support another pregnancy. I feel close to Mary and feel she guided me to wear her medal.

Mary is a protective mother who looks over me. I now think that my baby daughter was called to heaven to restore my closeness to God.