I was unsure of Jake’s status as a person. After my stillborn child died, I grieved alone. I was surprised at the magnitude of loss for a child I had never seen with earthly eyes. Only the parents of a miscarried or stillborn child understand the magnitude of the bonding, which occurs in the womb and the loss felt at the death of a fetus. As the mother of a stillborn baby we named Baby Jake, Tears in Heaven represents the unknown I felt after his death. Tears in Heaven expresses the hope of reuniting in the afterlife without the promise. Clapton wrote the song Tears in Heaven to express his thoughts about the sudden death of his child. Rock musician Eric Clapton’s young son tragically died in 1992. Others, not of our faith, do not have the knowledge of the promise of heavenly belonging. Our LDS doctrine gives us the reassurance of the sealing power, which promises us that our dead belong to us, and we to them. Some might even debate whether he had been a life at all. There is no other earthly record of his short life. I have a box tucked in the back of a closet with his sonogram, a white Winnie the Pooh onsie he never wore, a statue of a baby angel, a sympathy card and the book Gone to Soon: The Life and Loss of Infants and Unborn Children by Sherri Devashrayee Wittwer.
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