Category: April Rey Trisomy 13

Please see below for details about the 2021 Terminations Remembered Fundraiser in honor of April Rey Villegas and the Terminations Remembered community. Dear April Rey, Your 4th birthday is approaching. As we get close to your birthday every year, I feel the tug of sadness peak inside me. Each year I feel like it starts…

November 3, 2020. My heart is feeling the anxiety of today. My muscles are aching- a sure sign I’m stressed. Today is election day in the USA. I’ve always voted. Since I was 18, I knew it was my right and my voice. I did my civil duty and I went to the polls. I…

It is fundraising time again! Every year in honor of April Rey’s birthday, we hold a fundraiser. It is such a bittersweet time, but this fundraiser has been a phenomenal way to honor April’s legacy and all of the other babies we’ve lost too soon. August 8, 2020 will be what would have been April’s…

Dear April, You’re doing it. You are changing the world. It seems so crazy that a life lived so short can be so big and so impactful. Your 11 minutes have touched so many. You’re doing it, though. You are touching lives and your legacy will live on forever. So many people know your name.…

We thought we were so lucky. With our first pregnancy, we tried for 1.5 years to get pregnant, and needed fertility help. It was hard and frustrating and felt like it took an eternity. This time around, we knew that could happen again. We waited to try until we were ready, but also kept in…

Dear April Rey, Today is 8/8/19. It is your second birth/death anniversary. You should be running around as two year olds do, getting into everything and enjoying life. Instead, you are gone. This week has been hard. For some reason, it sneaks up on me- the grief that is. It shouldn’t. I know full well…

We have started a tradition every year of raising money to go to a good cause, in honor of April Rey. We do this around her birthday 8/8 in her memory. What would have been April’s 2nd birthday is quickly approaching. I won’t be able to run the race this year, but we are still…

For those of you that would like to make a donation to this years fundraiser in her honor (funds to go to Johns Hopkins Perinatal Palliative Care Program), please find the link at the bottom of this post. Thank you for helping to honor our sweet April Rey. Dear April Rey, Today marks the day…

The moment we found out that our daughter, April Rey, would not be able to survive outside of my body, we knew we wanted her life to touch others in some way. We knew that we wanted her life to serve a purpose and to help others. Unfortunately, we quickly found out that, with a…

When going through the emotional turmoil of having an unborn child with a terminal condition, it is near impossible to think straight. There are a million things going through your mind, and so many things to take care of, yet so little energy and time to do so. I was incredibly lucky to have a…