{"id":161,"date":"2013-12-22T19:09:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T01:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/?p=161"},"modified":"2013-12-22T19:10:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T01:10:01","slug":"iowa-dads-baby-girl-brings-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/iowa-dads-baby-girl-brings-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa dad\u2019s baby girl brings hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week many people have heard the inspirational story of love after loss when<a title=\"Wife\u2019s dying wish for husband\u2019s new family\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wifes-dying-wish-for-husbands-new-family\/\"> Brenda Schmitz of IA had her dying wishes for her husband and family fulfilled by a local radio station 2 years after her death<\/a>. In fact, I just got done posting about it here on Vicki&#8217;s Cloud. However, I haven&#8217;t seen nearly as much about this particular story of hope, also out of Iowa.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nate Yoho will never again see his wife Laura&#8217;s smile. He\u2019ll never feel the warmth of her hands or hear her breathing in the night.<\/p>\n<p>But even though he\u2019s lost the love of his life to brain cancer, a new sort of love has entered his life.<\/p>\n<p>His wife lives on through their daughter Caralyn, a baby born after Laura\u2019s best friend Kate Stetson volunteered to act as a surrogate.<\/p>\n<p>For this grieving dad, the baby is proof that love endures through tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s such an amazing gift,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20131219\/NEWS\/312190130\/A-special-delivery-Love-after-tragedy-brings-baby-into-world?Frontpage&amp;sf20834719=1&amp;nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">Nate told the Des Moines Register.<\/a> \u201cPart of it&#8217;s having a little bit of my wife back, I can see her when my daughter smiles. It just makes me content with everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[..]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Caralyn was born Nov. 26, four months after her mom died. She was a big baby with dark brown hair just like Laura\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>And although Caralyn will never meet her mom, the baby is surrounded by love \u2014 by a dad that loves her, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. And of course, her surrogate mom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaralyn&#8217;s birth was certainly up and down,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20131219\/NEWS\/312190130\/A-special-delivery-Love-after-tragedy-brings-baby-into-world?Frontpage&amp;sf20834719=1&amp;nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">Nate said<\/a>. \u201cI wish my wife was here but the joy of having [Caralyn] here, I know she wouldn&#8217;t want me to be sad.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/iowa-dad-baby-girl-brings-hope-wife-dies-brain-cancer-article-1.1554489\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/iowa-dads-baby-girl-brings-hope\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Cloud. However, I haven&#8217;t seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[47,50,48,29,21,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}