When things don’t go as planned, we can lose faith not only in ourselves, but also in any potential outcome in our lives. That’s what failure will do to you. It’s easy to lose hope and even faith when we experience life’s monumental failures. You might be wondering what a baby could possibly know about not giving up and not losing faith. So stay tuned because we’ll learn the entire story by the end of the post.
Stephen and Amy’s third child, Poppy, was born prematurely. Because of her size, she remained in the newborn nursery and some doctors began to doubt her chances of survival and she was in the nursery for three months before being cleared to return to her parents. Poppy’s parents noticed that she was constantly begging for food at home and they took her to the hospital.
So after some tests, she was diagnosed with Mobius syndrome, a rare neurological disorder in which a person’s facial muscles do not function properly. Poppy couldn’t smile or frown, according to Stephen. They said she might not be able to walk or talk. However, she began walking at the age of 15 months, which is by normal. We took her off the feeding tube around her first birthday and she improved every day, just like Poppy did when she was born. Read the full article here ▶
