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Originally Posted by Admo
sincere thanks to everyone for the kind words for Hope, i'll show them to my wife. we are sometimes ok, sometimes not. our two year old son is out of sorts as well. he's never seen mommy and daddy cry like this.
tomorrow morning they are inducing labor and we will deliver our baby girl. i built her tiny casket this weekend, it was gut-wrenching.
Admo, I'm so sorry for your loss. I was in a similar situation, and I remember exactly how hard the labor and delivery was. I've also talked many people who've gone through similar things. Everyone deals with things differently, of course, but I strongly recommend taking pictures. In fact, I suggest taking more than you think you should. It sounds trite and awful, but this is your one chance to take them.
Stay strong; our thoughts are with you.
Edit: I forgot to mention that the
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation pairs up professional photographers who have volunteered their services with parents. Having someone else take the photographs can make things a lot easier, as they can stay mostly in the background and out of your way so that you don't have to spend your limited emotional resources caring about taking pictures.
Edit2: I mean, I don't want to interrupt too much in this thread, but two other things were really important to us: we spent a lot of time holding our baby that day. We also made the ink footprints and handprints. I mention them because it wasn't obvious to us ahead of time how meaningful they'd be later.
Last edited by poincaraux; 10-01-2009 at 08:00 PM.