This week many people have heard the inspirational story of love after loss when Brenda Schmitz of IA had her dying wishes for her husband and family fulfilled by a local radio station 2 years after her death. In fact, I just got done posting about it here on Vicki’s Cloud. However, I haven’t seen nearly as much about this particular story of hope, also out of Iowa.
Nate Yoho will never again see his wife Laura’s smile. He’ll never feel the warmth of her hands or hear her breathing in the night.
But even though he’s lost the love of his life to brain cancer, a new sort of love has entered his life.
His wife lives on through their daughter Caralyn, a baby born after Laura’s best friend Kate Stetson volunteered to act as a surrogate.
For this grieving dad, the baby is proof that love endures through tragedy.
“It’s such an amazing gift,” Nate told the Des Moines Register. “Part of it’s having a little bit of my wife back, I can see her when my daughter smiles. It just makes me content with everything.”
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Caralyn was born Nov. 26, four months after her mom died. She was a big baby with dark brown hair just like Laura’s.
And although Caralyn will never meet her mom, the baby is surrounded by love — by a dad that loves her, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. And of course, her surrogate mom.
“Caralyn’s birth was certainly up and down,” Nate said. “I wish my wife was here but the joy of having [Caralyn] here, I know she wouldn’t want me to be sad.”