and in the INFIDEL world this is how we HONOR LIFE and LOVE!!!
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The saddest goodbye: Cradled in their parents' arms, the dying babies whose brief but love-filled lives are preserved forever in these poignant photographs
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2948855/Heartbreaking-moment-parents-say-goodbye-newborn-babies-captured-remembrance-photography-families-facing-untimely-death-infant.html
- 'Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep' organisation sends photographers to meet emotional parents and terminally ill babies
- They believe images serve as an important step in the family's healing process by honouring the child's legacy
- Founded by Cheryl Haggard, who had to take her newborn son, Maddux Achilles Haggard, off life support in 2005
- She called photographer Sandy Puc to capture their final moments and they both launched organisation
Cradling
their newborns with their faces filled with love, these pictures
capture heartbroken parents' final moments with their babies.
The
images were taken by the organisation Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, who
say they create the treasured memories by sending photographers to meet
devastated parents and their terminally ill babies in hospital.
The
service has boomed in popularity since launching in the USA ten years
ago and boasts 1,650 volunteers in 40 countries across the globe, who
offer their services via the organisation's website.
These images capture heartbroken
parents' final moments with their dying children, like baby Logan
Bostrom. Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep creates the memories by sending
photographers to meet emotional parents and their terminally ill babies
in hospital
Describing
their mission on their website, the organisation writes: 'Our mission
is to introduce remembrance photography to parents suffering the loss of
a baby with a free gift of professional portraiture.'
The
organisation trains, educates and organises for professional
photographers to provide what they describe as 'beautiful heirloom
portraits' to families facing the untimely death of an infant.
'We believe these images serve as an important step in the family’s healing process by honoring the child’s legacy,' they say.
The
organisation was founded by Cheryl Haggard, who had to make the
excruciating decision to take her newborn son, Maddux Achilles Haggard,
off life support in 2005.
Maddux
was born with a condition called myotubular myopathy, which prevented
him from breathing, swallowing or moving on his own.
Before
doing so, they called photographer Sandy Puc to take pictures of them
cradling their son, including some when he had been taken off life
support, when, they say, 'he was free from the tubes and the wires that
had sustained him'.
The organisation was founded by Cheryl
Haggard, pictured, who had to make the excruciating decision to take
her newborn son, Maddux Achilles Haggard, off life support in 2005. She
called in a photographer to capture their last moment together
The service has boomed in popularity
since launching in the USA ten years ago and boasts 1,650 volunteers in
40 countries across the globe. Here, baby Logan Bostrom is cradled in
his father's hands
The organisation trains, educates, and
organises for professional quality photographers to provide what they
describe as 'beautiful heirloom portraits' to families who face the
untimely death of their newborn, such as baby Hannah Grace Meyer
The nonprofit organisation is named
after the children's bedtime prayer and captured baby Hannah Grace Meyer
in her mother's arms
Cheryl
said: 'That night was the worst night of my life. But when I look at
the images, I am not reminded of my worst night. I’m reminded of the
beauty and blessings he brought.'
She
realised that those tender photographs documented Maddux's 'eternal
connnection' with his parents and inspired her to launch a non-profit
organisation to give other grieving parents the same experience.
Named
after the children's bedtime prayer, Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
provides families of babies who are stillborn or extremely ill newborns
with free professional portraits.
They
said about the service: 'Photographs are one of the most precious and
tangible mementos that a parent can have, showing the love and bond that
was given and shared with their baby.
'These portraits will last for generations, and will honor and remember a tiny life that is forever loved and cherished.'
In one testimonial on their website, a couple explained how their final family portrait helped them grieve.
'On Saturday March 17, 2012 around 10:45 am, we said hello and good-bye to our beloved son.
'It
is shocking to know that he is physically no longer with us. Yet we are
glad that your organization exists and was able to provide us a
lifetime of memories through the baby pictures taken of him.
'We
are so grateful and thank God that we have these pictures to forever
treasure our baby angel. May God continue to bless you as you bless and
help families through their difficult time.'
The organisation says they believe
these images, such as this one of baby Isabella Riviera, serve as an
important step in the family's healing process by honouring the child's
legacy
Baby Hannah Grace Meyer's tiny feet are captured as part of the photoseries for her parents
Founder Cheryl Haggard pictured
holding baby Maddux, who was born with a condition called myotubular
myopathy, which prevented him from breathing, swallowing or moving on
his own
After photographer Sandy Puc took
snaps of Maddux during his final moments, she and Cheryl launched the
organisation to help other parents
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