Jessica Natera

The reason I Choose Hope Against Hope as a business name is that I have always had faith in spite of hopelessness in every situation that seems hopeless; I trust in the lord. When I was pregnant with my son Sage, the doctors told me to terminate my pregnancy. They said that my child had no hope of making it and that if by some miracle he did that, he would be born with down syndrome. They tried so hard to get me to terminate my pregnancy. They told me that I was young and could have more kids. This wasn't the kind of life that I wanted. They said here, sign this. You only have 1 week before it will be illegal. Well, I told them if God's will was for me to have this child, then I would, and if he took him from me, then I was ok. However, I would never wonder if he had a chance, and if he was born with down syndrome, I would love him no matter what since it was my child, I would love him no matter what. I left that hospital and went to a different hospital for my pregnancy care.

When I was there, one of his kidneys ruptured while in utero and shriveled and had no function. They said to me the other kidney was about to rupture and once it did, my child would die. They wanted to put a shunt into his kidney while he was in utero to drain it. However, they said that it would be a 50/50 chance of losing him by doing the procedure, so I said I would not do it. They said then there was a 100 chance of losing him once it ruptured. 

However, I felt a sense of peace wash over me that could come from no other than God, so I stuck with my decision hoping against hope that the Lord's will was for me to have this child. Well, his kidney ruptured and REPAIRED itself; the doctors came to me and said there was absolutely no medical or scientific explanation for what just happened, and they asked me to continue doing whatever it was that I was doing. All I did was have faith in my God and have him baptized in the Holy Spirit while in utero. The reward of that faith is a beautiful boy named Sage with no down syndrome. He has one kidney that is enlarged. However, he is healthy and one old soul filled with so much love; I can't imagine my life without him. So even when things seem hopeless, never loose faith.