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Shop For a Cause! LuLaRoe Fundraisers for NILMDTS

By Sponsored Advertising Content October 14, 2016
In honor of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, a bunch of LuLaRoe consultants have come together to support an organization that mean so much to so many people. Now I Lay me Down to Sleep is a local organization based in Centennial that gifts families with remembrance photos of their precious babies who have left their arms too soon.

Rachael’s was one of the families touched by this organization. She had this to say about her experience, “I grew up knowing my mother had a stillborn daughter before I was born. I had been told of her perfect tiny features, but I never got to see her for myself. I often wondered if she looked like me, if she had dimples in her chin, if she had a pointy nose. I'll never know the answers to these questions because Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep wasn't around back then. People didn't take "bereavement photos", so instead, my parents were left with nothing more than her memories.

When we found out that our firstborn baby was not going to survive after birth, it was my mom who told me about NILMDTS and how she wished someone had taken photos of her baby 30+ years earlier. I was hesitant at first, but my mom knew the power and healing the pictures would provide our family.

Shirley Grace, born prematurely at 23 weeks, lived for a brief time. But in that brief time, NILMDTS was able to capture a lifetime of love. They captured our whispered ‘I love yous’, our admiration of her long toes and dimpled chin, our tear-filled eyes in the only family portrait she'll be a part of. Pictures captured her perfect fingers, eyelashes, and dark hair; her grasping my finger in a typical newborn hold. Pictures captured our goodbyes, the last kisses on her face, her tiny body in our loving arms. Pictures and ashes are the only things we have left of our daughter's short life, yet the pictures allow her life to be remembered, celebrated, and passed on to our other children. They know her name, her story because of the pictures gifted to us by NILMDTS.”

We hope to support the gifting of remembrance photos to more families like Rachael’s. All families deserve the opportunity to have their child’s legacy captured and shared for generations. There will be three different opportunities to support this amazing cause. The first two are in person events; one at the Douglas County Fairgrounds Event Center on October 22nd from 10am-1pm, and the second at the Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland on October 29th from 10am-1pm. The third opportunity will be an online Facebook sale, giving everyone a chance to give back to NILMDTS. We hope you will join us!!!

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