IPFS
Family Photo with Abortion Urn
IPFS
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"If you wish to see the baby, we call this an
identification and separation encounter. About 2-3 hours after you deliver
and after the twilight anesthesia has worn off, so that you will remember
the process, we will bring the baby to you either at the bedside or we
will go to our quiet room and we will bring the baby to you there. During
this encounter we will describe to you what's right with your baby, we
will identify what's wrong with your baby. You may hold the baby. We can
take pictures of you and the family holding the baby, if you wish, and that is
not an uncommon request. The identification/separation encounter may be
very brief, five or ten minutes. It may even take less than that. Or the
identification/separation encounter may involve 2 or 3 hours of bonding
with the baby - the identification that this is your baby and you have
had a delivery. We understand beyond a shadow of a doubt that the
difficult part of this process is not the premature delivery of the
stillborn. We understand that the easy part of this process is the
premature delivery of the stillborn. The difficult part of the process is
saying goodbye to the relationship that you have with your baby - saying
goodbye to the hopes and the dreams that you have for this - you have
placed this baby in your life someplace and you simply have to start the
process of saying goodbye."