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General Category => Health/Education => Life News => Topic started by: TomSea on January 15, 2019, 06:59:32 pm

Title: Device helps parents of stillborn babies say goodbye
Post by: TomSea on January 15, 2019, 06:59:32 pm

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Device helps parents of stillborn babies say goodbye
By THE NEW YORK TIMES More by this Author

The death of a child is nearly always devastating.

The cuddle cot helps preserve the body of a deceased new-born for days, allowing parents to hold them and take pictures.

The death of a child is nearly always devastating and typically followed by an outpouring of support while parents mourn.

But when a baby dies before it is born or shortly thereafter, parents are often alone in a hospital with a limited source of comfort and little, if any, opportunity to say goodbye to the baby — or babies.


Read more at: https://www.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/health/Device-helps-parents-of-stillborn-babies-say-goodbye/1954202-4935746-ro9rcm/index.html (https://www.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/health/Device-helps-parents-of-stillborn-babies-say-goodbye/1954202-4935746-ro9rcm/index.html)

A "refrigerated baby bed".