This nursery room is providing grieving parents with the opportunity to create first and final memories.
Like most moms, when Connecticut mom Jona Sager was pregnant with her daughter, Alicia, her time was spent day-dreaming about her future days to come with her newborn. But after a horrific car accident, all of her plans were laid to rest when her daughter passed away briefly after birth.
As traumatic as this is, it was the reality for grieving parents just a few decades ago. Thankfully, hospitals are much more sensitive around matters regarding pregnancy, infant and child loss today. And as a neonatal nurse at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, Sager has witnessed the compassion toward death change over the years. But still, like her, Sager has worked with countless parents who are grieving or are soon-to-be grieving the loss of their child.
“This will be a two-edged sword when we hear from families that use this room now, because I hate that anyone has to go through with it,” she says. “But if it helps, then it’s worth everything we’ve ever done.” “Knowing we would be leaving the hospital without our twin boys was the most heartbreaking thing to experience,” Geyer tells Scary Mommy.
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