Chrissy Teigen Pens Powerful Essay on Pregnancy Loss
Sarah Herron is reflecting on the last morning of her pregnancy.
The Bachelor Nation member recently posted a selfie of herself pregnant with her late son, Oliver Brown, as the two of them cuddled with her dog, Rio.
“It’s been 1 week,” she wrote Feb. 2 on her Instagram Story. “This was on our last morning all sitting together. It was the last morning I got to soak-in his big summersaults and hiccups. I want to go back. I’d give anything to go back to last Friday morning. We miss and you baby boy.”
The post comes two days after Sarah, who is engaged to Dylan Brown, wrote on Instagram that their son Oliver “passed away in his dad’s arms” shortly after she gave birth at 24 weeks pregnant.
“There are no words for the magnitude of loss and pain we’re experiencing,” she wrote on Feb. 1. “It’s beautiful and simultaneously tragic. He had my nose and his dad’s mouth and long fingers. Oliver, our IVF miracle defied so many odds and fought through so many hard milestones to be here, but the higher powers still had other plans for the three of us.”
The 36-year-old said that although her time with Oliver “was short,” she would always treasure “the days we had with Oliver in my belly.”
“He has taught us so much about the integrity of life, love and death,” she said. “Oliver filled our home and hearts with so much love and most importantly, optimism. The stars aligned to create Baby Oliver with a deep, meaningful purpose bigger than we’ll ever understand. His body was small, but his legacy will always be larger than life to us.”
Sarah, who appeared on Sean Lowe‘s season of The Bachelor in 2013, announced her pregnancy last September after documenting her IVF journey on social media.
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