The moving and heartbreaking shots of parents posing for the last time with their baby

The loss of a child is the greatest tragedy a human being can experience. There are no words to express the pain that can only be remotely imagined in such a situation, any sentence would be superfluous to define an excruciating and unnatural condition that unfortunately many parents have to face. In some of these cases, the child's death occurs in the very first moments of his life, depriving the parents of even memories and pieces of life spent with him. In delicate and difficult situations such as these, the noble initiative of the non-profit organization can be of help Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, which provides photographers to immortalize parents alongside their baby, who died prematurely: a way to portray the last moments spent together and allow you to remember the life that was, albeit short, so that it does not lose meaning and live in memory .

The organization was created by Cheryl Haggard in 2005, who lost her son Maddux Achilles shortly after his birth. It was Cheryl herself, during the terrible loss, who wanted to be immortalized with that child she knew only for a few moments. A portraying her was the photographer Sandy Puc, who today collaborates with her in the non-profit association created to support parents who face the loss of a child in the very first moments of his birth.

To date, the association, which has been operating for ten years, has provided help to 30,000 families and employs more than a thousand volunteers and photographers for the creation of these symbolic photos, which aim to celebrate the memory of small lives never lived but of extreme significance for the people who generated them Here are the touching images of small babies who died prematurely in the arms of their parents in paintings with a strong emotional impact that will certainly make you move.

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