Couple Pose for Heartbreaking Photographs With Their Stillborn Daughter to Seal Her Place As Part Of Their Family

Couple Pose for Heartbreaking Photographs With Their Stillborn Daughter to Seal Her Place As Part Of Their Family Couple Pose for Heartbreaking Photographs With Their Stillborn Daughter to Seal Her Place As Part Of Their Family
These pictures just pulled out tears in my eyes because it took me back to memory lane when I lost my first daughter in the hospital. Although she wasn't stillborn but doctor's mistake in Nigeria killed her and I never got the privilege to hold her like that in my arms before she was buried (tears dropping). But I'm glad God has replaced her with another beautiful damsel..

A couple chose to remember their little stillborn girl Monroe by having a professional photographer capture her lifeless body on film. They wanted to honor her memory and to acknowledge her as a member of their family. .

'I wanted our family to have some way to show how beautiful our daughter was,' Emily Staley, 26, told Yahoo Health. 'I was proud of her, and I wanted to show her off and make sure her memory lives on.'



Emily Staley discovered that her baby had died inside of her. Alarmed when she couldn't feel the usual movements in her belly, Staley rushed to hospital only to be told that the umbilical cord had become wrapped around the baby's neck and that she had died.
Staley gave birth to Monroe Faith Staley, a full-term baby girl, the following morning via C-section and Natzic-Villatoro was there for the moment the baby was given her first bath and handed to her mother.

'I wanted this family to have every possible memory of this child I could physically give them,' she says. She had arrived at the hospital unsure of what to expect. 'I was here to help them both. I also told them that there way NO right way to handle this. If they wanted to freak out on me, throw something, cry, yell… whatever, it was absolutely OK,' says Natzic-Villatoro.

The Staleys spent the next nine hours with their precious child as family members came to visit, during which time Natzic-Villatoro took photographs that have become treasured memories for the couple. Fredda Wasserman of Our House Grief Support Center says that stillbirths are often treated as miscarriages and swept under the rug.

'It’s way too uncomfortable for other people, too scary, too much to look at,' she explained. 'But people who don’t grieve really suffer.' Taking the photographs and sharing them is a healing process, she told Yahoo Health. 'It says, "We need to be validated, and we deserve as much empathy and condolences as someone who lost a live child. We’re mourning her death."'

Posted by Hodie J