𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧: 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐬

Listen as Shannon shares Charles and Benedictus with us, two different pregnancy's that both ended in loss. Charlie, was Shanon and her husband Justin's eighth child. Shannon's pregnancy with Charlie was unlike the rest of her earlier pregnancies. She had experienced heavy bleeding at 6 weeks gestation and was told she was most likely miscarrying. She waited for signs of miscarriage and nothing ever happened. Then when she showed up for her original 10 week ultrasound they had cancelled the appointment thinking she had already miscarried. After pleading with them to make room in the schedule, the doctors were amazed when they saw that heartbeat on the screen. However, about halfway through her pregnancy Charlie was diagnosed with Trisomy 18. After receiving the Trisomy 18 diagnosis, Shannon started writing letters to Charlie to help connect and cope. (They can be found by searching #letterstocharlie on Facebook.) She carried Charlie until 36 weeks gestation when he died during labor. Almost a year later, Shannon miscarried her next pregnancy, Benedictus. They had a funeral and buried him on Charlie’s first heavenly birthday. Then a year later their double rainbow baby, Zuzu, was born June 7 and baptized on Charlie’s 2nd heavenly birthday and Benedictus’ funeral day.