Three
years ago I had no idea Minutes of Gold existed. Their volunteers make tiny
bereavement garments for babies born too soon, and donate the items to
hospitals. Garments for babies like my girls. My two tiny little daughters were dressed and wearing tiny hats and wrapped in blankets thanks to Minutes of Gold. I talk to them. I look at their pictures. I keep them on my dresser. In their pictures it looks like they are sleeping.
Every 20
minutes a mother loses a baby from a preterm or still birth. Every day 116 mothers in America join me.
On January
21, 2011, and then again on February 4, 2011; I became a statistic. I became a
face of pregnancy loss. My loss has altered the course of my life. I only
carried them for 21 and 23 weeks respectively but my girls changed me
forever.
It’s been
three years now, but I still wonder… “Would Tierney still look like me? Would
Eden still look like her dad?”
I am
grateful to Minutes of Gold because they recognized these are tiny babies, not
just numbers in a statistical listing.
Jennifer
“Jake” Ibarra is an SBD University graduate, San Francisco Native and mother to
six including her preterm twin angels. Her personal experience combined with
extensive birth and bereavement training make her an invaluable asset to the
DoulaSpot team. For Jake's full story click here: http://doulaspot.com/2014/03/jakes-story-loving-and-losing-tierney-and-eden/
*Photo
courtesy of Jake and her family
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