Joy reveals in the video that at the 19-week mark, she stopped feeling her baby move.
Though Joy tried to assure herself everything would be all right, her intuition was, sadly, correct.
Joy recalls: “My heart just sunk.
I was like, ‘This can’t be happening.'”
They opted for an inducted stillbirth so they could hold their daughter and give her a formal burial.
Little Annabell Elise Forsyth arrived on July 1, 2019.
“But when we delivered her, she was beautiful.
…She looked like a Forsyth.
She looked like Gideon.
She had her little eyes and her nose and her mouth.”
I just remember thinking, ‘Why did we have to lose her?
What was wrong?’
…I just started bawling again."
It seemed unthinkable that anyone could celebrate at a time like this.
“I felt bad about moving on and being happy without her,” she explains in hervlog.
“We couldn’t just live in a state of grief,” Austin says.
She assured them her loss wouldn’t affect her relationship with them.
And He answered that prayer."
Joy’s prayers were answered again when she became pregnant with daughter Evelyn Mae, born in August 2020.
