Delivery room photos help mom cope with loss
by Carder
We had the immense joy of knowing Aila on this Earth for 46 minutes. The hospital allowed me to hold her for 12 hours and I was able to study her sweet face all night long. The pain that we feel from missing her each day is inexplicable. I ache for the day when I can kiss her forehead and hold her in my arms again…
It has been 11 weeks since she was born, and I continue to stare at those photos daily. I have not a single regret that we had them taken, and am so grateful for the gift of her precious memory through photos.
~ Author and photographer Danielle Walker, pictured above with her husband and newborn daughter (click to enlarge), sharing her experience of having professional photographs taken during the birth and final moments of her newborn daughter, Aila, who was born with a fatal genetic disorder, Today Parents, September 10
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Parents who abort don’t get those precious minutes with their living children. And often the child is dismembered so they don’t get those healing photos either.
Every minute with our children is a precious gift. Even if they’re sick or disabled or dying we should not kill them. And why would we want to? Why would we want to give up even one minute with our babies?
To reduce the trauma. Some people revel in choosing to do what Danielle did. Others would find it horrific. Photos may be healing for some, not others. Each to their own.
Better yet, live and let live.
In reality, No one except the sickest child abuser would revel in the sickness and death of their child.
Celebrating your child’s life is not reveling in your own choice. Totally tacky and wacky word choice.
Thank you Mary Ann, I am well aware that anti-choicers are less than enthused about the word ‘choice’.
How can a mother’s love be reduced by anyone and described as “horrific”?
You know what’s horrific? Choosing to kill your own child.There is no “each to his own” when it comes to stopping a beating human heart.