Can you pray to your miscarried baby?

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I often think about the baby I miscarried at around 6 weeks. I didn’t realize I was pregnant during the miscarriage but just after “my period” I got a positive pregnancy test. After I took tests for a few more days, the test got lighter each day until it was negative. I realized then that it wasn’t just a really bad period, it was a miscarriage.

I feel very sensitive about this topic. So, if you can, please don’t offer medical advice. But, I feel a mix of emotions about it having not realized that it was a baby I was losing. I would really like to be able to pray to my baby, but I’m not sure if it works like that since it was such an early pregnancy. Is the soul fully conscious for those who die so young? Is my baby fully mature in heaven?
 
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I think you can pray FOR your baby. The Church does not teach that the baby is canonized or in heaven for sure. But we may have hope. I’m not sure it would be damaging to pray to your baby for intercession with God. But be careful, much like all the saints, we are not dietizing
 
I have mass said every year on the anniversary of our ectopic pregnancy rupture for that child.
 
I’m not sure there’s a definitive teaching on this, but I don’t see how it could hurt.
 
In a Very Long Statement, the Catholic International theological commission has said:
“Our conclusion is that the many factors that we have considered above give serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptised infants who die will be saved and enjoy the Beatific Vision. We emphasise that these are reasons for prayerful hope , rather than grounds for sure knowledge. There is much that simply has not been revealed to us” … So Yes!! pray for your unborn child As I do for mine.
 
Thought you might appreciate this from Mother Angelica…

My Lord, the baby is dead!

Why, my Lord—dare I ask why? It will not hear the whisper of the wind or see the beauty of its parents’ face—it will not see the beauty of Your creation or the flame of a sunrise. Why, my Lord?

“Why, My child—do you ask ‘why’? Well, I will tell you why.

You see, the child lives. Instead of the wind he hears the sound of angels singing before My throne. Instead of the beauty that passes he sees everlasting Beauty—he sees My face. He was created and lived a short time so the image of his parents imprinted on his face may stand before Me as their personal intercessor. He knows secrets of heaven unknown to men on earth. He laughs with a special joy that only the innocent possess. My ways are not the ways of man. I create for My Kingdom and each creature fills a place in that Kingdom that could not be filled by another. He was created for My joy and his parents’ merits. He has never seen pain or sin. He has never felt hunger or pain. I breathed a soul into a seed, made it grow and called it forth.”

I am humbled before you, my Lord, for questioning Your wisdom, goodness, and love. I speak as a fool—forgive me. I acknowledge Your sovereign rights over life and death. I thank You for the life that began for so short a time to enjoy so long an Eternity. – Mother M. Angelica
 
Oh man, I really sympathize with you.

People can debate this theological issue til the sun comes up. Why not just pray FOR your Baby instead?
 
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