I was very happy to learn that we were pregnant because both of us loved children. Until the 13-week antenatal examination knew that the child was a Down baby, and at 20 weeks to go for a structural examination, it was found that the fetus’s stomach and heart were developing abnormally, and the doctor strongly persuaded us to terminate the pregnancy. We were devastated, but after much thought, we decided to keep the child, in our opinion, to become parents, as long as he has the strength to come into this world, no matter what the child is like and what difficulties he will encounter in the future, we are willing to face it with the child. The child seems to be able to hear our heart, and after 24 weeks of examination, the child’s stomach and heart are no longer in trouble.

But other difficulties followed. At 31 weeks of pregnancy, my own gestational hypertension was severe and I had to remove my baby by caesarean section immediately. The child was born 3 months premature, weighed only 719 grams, and after I woke up from surgery, I saw my child 48 hours old, which was the first time I saw him. My husband opened the curtain of the incubator, I saw that he was the size of a bottle boy very thin, his whole body was full of throat tubes, shocked and distressed, I called him softly, he immediately reacted and began to cry, at that moment I wanted to hold him in my arms, but I couldn’t do it, because I had just completed the operation, it took time to recover, and I could only say goodbye to him with heartache and reluctance. As I was leaving, I gently told him, “Mommy is leaving, you have to cheer yourself!” He immediately stopped crying and rested obediently and quietly.

At that moment, although I was sad, I was also relieved, and he also knew that he felt sorry for his mother! I’m glad I made the right decision to keep this child.

It wasn’t until 26 days after he was born that I really hugged him for the first time, and at this moment I still can’t describe the shocking feeling at that moment, I held him carefully, I don’t know what the future of our family is, and even the life and death of the child is unknown, but at that time he looked at me in his arms, and I felt more joy. Now he is 1 year and 3 months old, and every time I see his cute and lively appearance, I already feel the greatest happiness in life and very satisfied. I didn’t think much about my child’s future path, growing up healthy and happy was our greatest expectation for him, and he worked hard and persevered to do it.

It is his persistence that makes us understand the true meaning of many lives. Although there will still be challenges in the process of caregiving, I am convinced that the child is carrying us forward, and we just need to focus on the present. Before the birth of our child, we loved to travel around the world and felt that we could not see the outside world, but after having the child, I sat at home and quietly watched him and was satisfied.

Believing that God heard our prayers sincerely, we named him faithful because he came into the world through great hardships to meet his parents, faithful and persistent.