I hate when I do this. I always go to this thread by accident and end up reading about everyone's losses and crying...but the thing is that I'm sitting the library of my university sobbing!
I lost a dog I got when I was 3 a couple of years ago and it really affected me and my friendships (no one understood my pain and they all just laughed....ppppssshhh 16 year olds....). I can relate to dogs better than people because I'm very self consious and they don't judge like people my age do....so it was hard for me to loose my only TRUE friend. Luckily God put Beau in my path and he has become a large part of my life now.
My boyfriend's grandma past away recently and she had a close to death experience hours before she finally joined God, and she said that her husband held her hand and told her not to be scared in the coming hours because God was reuniting them. She came back to earth to tell us this, so she could help my boyfriend's family and I find God and push all questions of his existance and love out of our heads and hearts, then she joined God with a smile on her face in a peaceful death while napping.
I believe that our babies pass into heaven as we do, because it would be Hell for both us and them if we all couldn't be reunited. A life without Beau is going to be near impossible, but an eternal existance without Beau would surely be Hell.