Faith Through Stressful Pregnancy
Being an expectant mother brought about a lot of plans and beautiful anticipation for Trista Stamness. It was her second pregnancy. She and her husband, David already had a happy and healthy three year old little girl. Sienna was excited at the thought of becoming a big sister.
“At the time I remember everyone wanted us to have a boy and all I prayed for was to have a healthy baby,” Trista said.
But the happiness would soon be taken out of the equation. Trista was told the baby had a two-vessel umbilical chord, normal pregnancies have three. There was the potential for fluid on the brain of the baby and soon after, doctors found a rare type of cyst on the left lung.
“Now when I think about it makes me aware of how God really carried me. Just thinking through all the stress of it and even looking back at the memories today I didn’t realize. I really felt at that point on that He just had my hand and was lifting me up and that’s how I got through everyday,” Trista recalls.
David says, “I remember breaking down by myself because, of course you want to be strong for everyone else. If we put our faith in Him we knew in the end we could get through it but it was going to be challenging.”
Doctors suggested an amniocentesis giving them better insight into the complications, a procedure that could bring on labor less than half-way into the pregnancy leaving them with the chance of losing the baby and furthermore giving them the option to abort the pregnancy altogether…something neither would ever consider.
“We both agreed that we could wait three or four months not knowing about something but it would be hard to live a lifetime knowing that we may have jeopardized being able to have her at all. It was really a long time that we depended, that everything was going to be okay and we just had to make sure that we prayed and knew that He was going to take care of this and not us,” David said.
And on March 8 of 2006 Taylor Faith was born. A few surgeries and 6 years later, she is healthy and happy. The Stamness’s know God was and is in all of this.
“Looking at the pictures and to even think back knowing that we were in that standpoint is really amazing to know how far we’ve come,” Trista said.
“We continually look to the Lord when we are in trouble and we recognize that this is only a lifetime and we know that one day if we follow His word that we’ll be able to celebrate eternity forever,” David concluded.
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