Mon Nov 8, 2021 – 7:38 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — A pro-life couple who journeyed across mountains with their unborn baby girl after she was given a fatal diagnosis shared how they have been deeply touched by the hour they spent with her after birth.
“I am no longer the same. My family has forever been changed. The world will not forget our blazing Ember — so tiny, so bright, so powerful,” wrote Joe Baker, who co-founded the pro-life ministry Save the Storks with his wife, Ann.
Joe and Ann, already parents of three boys, discovered early in their pregnancy that the baby girl they so longed for had the brain disorder anencephaly, meaning she wouldn’t survive long outside the womb.
This is why, as Ann shared in a short film she made with Joe about their family, they decided to name their baby Ember “after the ember of a fire, because they are beautiful and bright but only here for a moment.”
After an initial period of depression, Joe said, “Ann came to me with a map of the U.S. and said, ‘I’d like to take Ember to all these places while we have her.’ It seemed like a crazy idea, but I wanted
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