Our story is one of loss, hope, and perseverance.

In February 2013, my husband Sean & I lost our first child, a daughter we later named Adeline Grace, at 20 weeks into the pregnancy. It was one of the most difficult, heart-wrenching, emotional situations either of us has ever dealt with. In the days and weeks following the loss, we felt alone. All around us the world was continuing on as it always had and yet ours had stopped. We felt disjointed, as though we didn’t know how to live a normal life anymore. We went back to work, back to our daily routines, but we were just going through the motions. Many people around us acted as though nothing had happened. We learned in that time how deafening silence can be.

Losing a child changes a person. It carries a special type of pain that really can’t be described, only understood by those who have been there. In the midst of our grief, we decided we didn’t want anyone else to ever feel alone in the same way we did. And so, in March 2013, we began the nonprofit organization Through the Heart.

Every year we help thousands of others just like us who are going through one of the worst moments of their lives. We have sent more than 2,500 Comfort Kits to all 50 states and Washington, DC. We ourselves leaned on the TTH community as we went through two more miscarriages on our way to welcoming two beautiful, healthy baby boys to our family.

Although our pain has changed in the past 7 years, it has not gone away and we are incredibly grateful to all who have supported us and TTH. Together we remember all of the babies gone too soon.