Mary's Surprise

Part 2 of 4

We left the doctor's office greatly affected. We decided to go to another one that gave us the same answer.

“There is no heartbeat and there should be one.” They recommended what they called "a cleaning process.” But for us it was to end a life, even if they insisted there was none.

We decided to go to a third doctor, not as famous as the others, but perhaps more humane. He didn’t said anything encouraging either, but my wife ‘s tears convinced him that he should go a little beyond.

He said, "You're young, you will have other children." But the crying did not stop. Then he dared to suggest something different. "Let's do this, we will wait another week. But if at that time there is no heartbeat, we will have to do something to get what you have out of there. In the meantime, pray to God as much as you can." He was convinced that nothing would happen.

We couldn’t do anything else but pray. At that time, and we should have done it before, we remembered our love for our Blessed Mother, especially that little image that we had from a friend, a representation of the Mother of God in a movement which was born in Germany on October 18, 1914. We sat across from her and simply asked for this:

"Please, Blessed Mother, grant us this miracle, that our baby be alive."