Stolen Names, Dear Apple and Banana

Dear Apple and Banana, 

I know I don't write to you girls often enough, I'm sorry for that. Your momma has been so busy helping others, honoring the memories of so many precious and much wanted babies gone too soon. 

Yesterday I learned of someone who had taken your unique names and used them for a recent loss of their own. This was done without asking me how I felt, without any update about having a loss, without anything at all. Just a request on a graphic with your names on it from the same page I have been requesting graphics from since the beginning of this year. I was hurt, I was angry, I still feel a little bit of both.

I'm sorry that I couldn't protect you babies. I'm sorry that someone decided to steal your names. They didn't explain how they came to name their babies your names, just that I was being rude to question and and that "it is a free country", that she "is entitled to name her Angels what ever she would like". She said I was being rude but in fact I felt that her response to me was being that, and by not answering what I had asked.

Had she asked me baby girls I may not have minded so much, I may have felt honored, although I would have asked for her to name her 2nd child something different than banana because that name is very special to your daddy and I.

Both your names are so very special to us. Your names have a story behind it, our first ultrasound and seeing your tiny baby circles with beating flickers of heartbeats, we will never forget how that moment made us feel.

A year ago our lives were so very different, you babies were growing and each week was an amazing experience to see you both. Our hearts ache that you're gone, that all we have left of you are memories and our keepsakes to remember you by.

Please send us lots of signs and don't be too upset that your momma is hurt and offended by this. There are things more important that this. The support group here and the charity will go on in your memory and your lives will be honored. Everything that I do, I do for you my loves. You made me a mother, thank you so much for the gift you gave me.

Watch over your parents and send us some baby dust and good luck so we can conceive a rainbow baby brother or sister for you. We dream of having an earthly baby and hope that this time in our lives next year will be filled with celebration.

Momma loves you both so so very much, forever and ever!!! Our snow angels, our beautiful butterflies, our shining stars, our fruit of the womb, our Apple Marie and Banana Lee.  

Hugs and kisses baby girls.

Love,
Your Momma and page admin to Fruit Of The Womb, TTTS Angels and Fruit Of The Womb Angels, Evelyn Schwenke