When Wishes Change is about how Tricia and her family navigated the miracle birth of her daughter Annabelle and her death 6 days later. It’s about grief and about how life can change but it is also about hope. After falling pregnant Tricia and her husband Jonas decided to have a test to find out the gender of the baby but they also found out she had Trisomy 18 and were recommended to have an abortion. After much thought and prayers they decided, ‘we wanted to keep the pregnancy and just give it our best’. She explains Annabelle defied the odds and was born despite them being told, ‘there was probably only a 10% chance of meeting her alive’. Tricia says, ‘I think even though it was a tragic situation… we were just so lucky to get to meet her and to hold her.’ She talks about when her eldest child Cameron met Annabelle, ‘I remember the moment when my son got to meet her and say hello to her... Every time Cameron came in the room her little head would pick up a little bit when he started talking’.

Tricia also talks about her job as a head volleyball coach at a high school being a positive outlet during her pregnancy. She is very proud and full of respect for her team who ended up winning the state championship. ‘I think these young athletes were so beyond their years to just see that I was going through something that was a really difficult situation... They had told me early on that this was for Annabelle and… they wanted to win state for her which was extremely humbling right’. Her coaching experience also helped her during this difficult time. She reflects, ‘You teach kids that it’s not about the winning and losing it’s about getting better and feeling like you have done everything… And for me, as I processed all of this I felt like… if I chose to continue with the pregnancy that I would do everything I could to keep myself healthy and the baby inside of me healthy and if I got to meet her alive I would do everything I could to make her comfortable’. This is a wonderful honest hopeful episode talking about how we can all navigate difficult times and grief. The interview was recorded on Friday 8th October.

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