I am wondering if any of you have any experience of this, for example, concieving a baby soon after a close family members death.
I ask as I have a personal experience of this which my friends dismiss as a coincidence, but I am utterly convinced.
A few months ago my baby girl was on her baby gym in the living room and I was busy cleaning in the kitchen. I tended to only look in on her occasionally when I was busy at that time as I could hear her cry and she could barely roll. The phone rang, and as I came into the living room to answer it I saw she had managed to shuffle over to under the window and the curtain cord was wrapped tight around her neck. She was barely managing to cry as it was so tight and she had the curtain over her face. I was hysterical and untangled her thinking what could have happened had it been just another minute I had not noticed.
She was fine, and I called my husband at work who settled my nerves, and said how fortunate it was that we had been called right then (what might have been still makes me shudder). My mother called 5 minutes later to tell me my Grandmother, who had been ill with alzheimers and cancer and was in ICU at the time had died. She had been recovering, but we all knew she would not have much more life in her.
I had made my sister promise to call immediately when my gran was ready to go so I could speak to her for a last time, and it was my sister who had called when I found my baby in this position to say that she had suddenly, but peacefully passed away at her side, but had asked her to call me and say goodbye.
Everyone says this is a coincidence but I cannot help but think how much that phonecall meant to me, and maybe my gran decided that her life was worth giving up on if it meant saving her great granddaughters. The most beautiful thing is my daughter now has her grandmothers eyes, the exact, and very unusual shade of pale lilac so I can see her whenever I look at my little girl.
Sorry I am crying now. The truth sometimes is stranger than fiction and I wish I could thank her in person.
I hope someone else has a similar experience and can support my beliefs.