Please help donate to my brother Sean and his wife Amanda with funeral expenses and medical bills after the heartbreaking loss of their baby Jacob. We are all devastated. The following words are from the Mother of Jacob.

The unimaginable has become our reality. On this night, our sweet, beautiful, handsome, and most amazing little baby boy, Jacob, passed away peacefully next to his father. Our family is devastated. I could have never imagined something like this happening to me, to us. It’s always “other people” this happens to; you hear things like this, but it’s not real unless it’s happening to you. I’ve never experienced more love, heartbreak, and pain in my life as I have in these last few weeks, being so broken down as a human/woman, mentally and physically. All that could have been... the life we could have had... the kind of person he would be. The what-ifs? Feeling like a failure as a mother even though it is nobody's fault. Life is not fair.

Toward the end of my pregnancy, he measured way smaller than he should have, which complicated things and ended up in us having a traumatic emergency C-section: cord triple wrapped around his neck, a knot in his cord, and a calcified placenta. He persevered... which I’m still recovering from surgery. My scar and my stretch marks will always be a reminder of my precious boy and how strong of a person I am for going through what I did to get him here. I ache to hold him again in my arms, but for now, he will be in our hearts until we see him on the other side and take comfort in the thought that he will always be with us.