A year and a half ago, Kristin Ohlson told readers of Miller-McCune.com about Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, a now 6-year-old Colorado nonprofit that takes pictures of babies who have died as a memento for grieving families. While some might see a tasteful picture of a mother holding their deceased child as a touch morbid, others view the black-and-white photos as an important gesture to memorialize a loved member of the family and to help the survivors in grieving. Anthropologist Linda Layne of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute told Ohlson, “For professional photographers to do that kind of ... Read More
Just a Memory Before You Sleep Forever
July 9, 2010 • By • Leave a Comment
Jill and Mike MacGregor like to smile. The Ohio couple smile as they slide the vase of yellow silk flowers to the far side of their dining room table and wait for me to set up my laptop. They smile as they begin their story — about the perfect early days of Jill's second pregnancy, then the complications beginning in her fifth month: the emergency surgery after her appendix burst, the bleeding and contractions a few days later, the weeks of bed rest, and finally, the difficult cesarean section birth of their son, Collin. Then came even harder weeks as the baby suffered one ... Read More
