Anastasia-Rose Spencer

I am raising funds on behalf of Jenna and Josh, for their beautiful daughter who was too

precious for this earth!

This is their story,

This is the hardest thing we've ever had to do as parents. A month ago today, our daughter, Anastasia Rose Spencer, Anna as everyone liked to call her, was born at 4.25 in the afternoon via a complex C section.

Over the last few weeks, being parents has been a joy and privilege. Changing nappies, burping, changing more nappies, and a massive amount of cuddles! It's things like this that most parents look back on and think "Yeah, I wouldn't trade it for the world, but it was hard work, but would do it all again".

Boy, what I would give to turn back time to do it on repeat.

A parent should never have to bury their child. It's wrong, it's horrible, never mind a parent having to make the decision to stop life support to give their child an easy passing. She fought a long and hard battle, and was strong until the end, but now she gets to rest.

They say God both gives and takes, well the greedy guts just wanted his Angel back. Both me and Jenna are heart broken, we don't see a road ahead from this. Just loss, sorrow and an empty void that will never be filled.

We were informed that she had caught GSB, something that for some reason, was not screened for. It burned through her, took root in her blood and made it's way to her brain causing irreversible damage. Both me and Jenna are so proud of the fight she put up, no parent could ask for any less. I just pray that no other parent will have to go through what we have these last few days.

Due to the extensive damage the infection caused, and the opinion of the doctors that even if she did survive, she would be severly disabled, In the early hours of today both me and Jenna came to the decision that we would not prolong her suffering. And at 4.25 today, exactly a month since she was born, we gave the doctors our concent not to resuscitate, and to switch off her ventilator, and at 5.00pm, she passed away under no pain and it was peaceful. The little Angel even opened her eyes for us one last time before going into a deep sleep.

This has been one of the tuffest, hardest and most heart breaking of decisions that both me and Jenna have ever had to make in our lives, but we want to assure everyone that we will be okay, thank you for having us and our beautiful Anastasia in your thoughts, but if we could make one small request, allow us to go through this free of questions relating to how we are or how we are feeling, I'm hoping you understand the sense of sorrow in this post to gather that.

Goodbye Anna, you will be missed very much. No father, nor mother ever had a more beautiful and amazing daughter.

Fly high, go be with your grand parents. Your mommy and daddy will follow you up later for cuddles and love!