Sarah Lampley knows that life isn’t all sunshine and roses, as many social media posts portray.
The East Cobb mom is a content creator and blogger. Along with beautiful family photos and uplifting parenting essays, she shares real life’s grit and tragedy.
Sarah, 35, and her husband Lewis, 36, have three sons and always hoped to have more children. After years of infertility, she became pregnant with their fourth child.
"We jokingly said in our family: 'If we had a fourth boy, that would just be pretty legendary,‘” Sarah said.
So, naturally, when they found out it was a boy, Legend became his name.
Sarah had a healthy pregnancy, but two days before her scheduled inducement in September 2021, she was rushed to the emergency room with a placental abruption. Legend was delivered stillborn, and doctors had to fight to save Sarah’s life.
After time spent in the hospital, the grieving parents went home and told their older sons that Legend wasn’t with them.
"It was really heartbreaking as a family, especially since we made it to the end, and it had already been such a tough time even to get this beautiful blessing, Legend, whom we dreamed of for so long," said Sarah.
"Through our grief, we held on to our faith. That’s really important to us," she added.