Alexa PenaVega shared a heartbreaking photograph of herself holding her stillborn child one 12 months after the toddler tragically died.
In a pic posted to Instagram over the weekend, the “Spy Youngsters” actress may very well be seen crying whereas holding the toddler, named Indy Rex PenaVega, within the hospital.
“This was probably the most painful second I’ve ever skilled,” she captioned the publish. “I bear in mind it feeling so onerous to breathe. Such a deep aching ache… How was this actual? It didn’t really feel actual. Each emotion flooded in directly.”
Alexa, who welcomed Indy and three different youngsters with husband Carlos PenaVega, defined that though she and her household had been struggling a “devastating loss,” they nonetheless felt a “pure peace.”
“It was all out of our management,” she wrote. “We needed to give it throughout to God. The burden was too heavy for us to hold so He took the load off of us and draped us in His peace.”
The “Sleepover” actress, 36, mirrored on how her household’s lives had modified during the last 12 months and shared that she’s seen “LIFE come out of her life.”
“We watched individuals heal due to Indy. We watched grief lifted due to Indy. We watched relationships be restored… God gave her life SO MUCH FRUIT … a lot which means and objective,” she continued.
“Our candy lady is celebrating with Jesus at this time. And Whereas we nonetheless mourn and need we had her in our arms… we all know she is ready for us in a spot that’s past something we are able to think about. Jeremiah 29:11.”
Alexa additionally posted a black-and-white photograph of her and Carlos’ three youngsters –– sons Ocean, 8, Kingston, 5, and daughter Rio, 3 –– holding a photograph of the late new child.
“Our ceaselessly world changer 🤍 Completely satisfied heavenly birthday child lady,” she wrote over the photograph on her Instagram Story.
In the meantime, Carlos, 35, additionally paid tribute to his late daughter by posting the same photograph of his three youngsters an image of their late sibling.
“Completely satisfied heavenly birthday Indy lady. 🤍Our little world changer. Psalm 34:18,” he captioned his publish.
The couple, who tied the knot in 2014, introduced the lack of their fourth youngster shortly after her beginning in April 2024.
“After an attractive and peaceable supply our daughter ‘Indy’ was born at relaxation,” they wrote on the time. “This little lady has already modified our lives in so some ways. She was completely stunning. And regarded identical to daddy. Darkish hair and all.”
Shortly afterward, Alexa shared an emotional video the place she defined that the ordeal was the “most traumatic factor” she and Carlos have been by.
“I don’t assume I’ve skilled something fairly like this, and I hope to by no means expertise something like this once more,” she mentioned final Could, earlier than clarifying that her household has “by no means been stronger.”
