Rainbow Baby-Jean's Story

Jon & I met in 1987. We quickly fell in love, and much to our surprise we found out that we were expecting twins. I said to him, "I wish I had waited until we were married to get pregnant. (Be careful what you wish for) At 21 weeks the boys were born and lived almost 1 hour, then passed. Months passed, this time we were ready, or we thought. Nicholas was born February 6,1989. We were so happy & he was so loved. May 5, 1989 we were devastated when Nicholas died of SIDS. I never wanted to get pregnant again. I thought, If you don't get pregnant, you don't have to bury babies. Jon begged, to try again and on January 11,1991 our beautiful baby girl, Nichole was born. She wore an apnea monitor for the first year, until they felt she was too old for SIDS. Seventeen months later we were blessed again when her baby sister Jonell arrived. Jonell was born with 2 holes in her heart & CNS immaturity. She was on caffeine for 4 months, to help her brain to remember to breathe. Shortly after first birthday they took her off of the apnea monitor. I spent many nights getting very little sleep. Getting up often to make sure she was breathing. On June 2,1995 our son Mathew was born, full term & healthy. He was on the apnea monitor for the first 10 months but never really needed it. We decide Mathew would be our last baby, as I could not survive having to bury another baby. God had blessed us with 3 rainbow babies, that was enough.