Full Circle Fur Baby

The kitten, now almost 10 months old.
She is a "Torbie" (tabby/tortoiseshell cross).

I'll never give birth to more than two children (hopefully we won't inherit any either, as that would only be due to a disaster, and we don't want that to happen).

After multiple early miscarriages, two pregnancies with life-threatening complications (HELLP & a DVT and PE) and two later pregnancy losses that were also life threatening... we're done playing reproduction roulette. Absolutely. Done.

I think the hardest pregnancy loss was the last one - a complete, unplanned surprise - but a nice surprise. We saw the baby waving at us at the ultrasound scan - just over a day before we lost the baby.

Months later when we decided to adopt the kitten at Christmas I didn't even think about her age - but a while later I was going through her paperwork from the store - and there it was. The kitten's birth certificate.

Her birthday was the same day the baby would have been due.

Now... while my kitten certainly isn't another child - and doesn't replace another child, I know that to me this seems like there is a plan in the universe. There was a young soul waiting, who needed us. Needed a family.

And that's enough.