Honoring Even the Smallest Lives – Glenda Stansbury, CFSP – Dodge Magazine

Glenda Stansbury, CFSP, shares, “Caring funeral directors help families understand that even the smallest life deserves remembrance. Their expertise provides a loving environment for viewing and services, bringing compassionate bereavement care to the forefront.”

Source: https://themazwellgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Dodge-Magazine-Summer-2024-1.pdf#page=24

The increase in Celebrant Baby Services across the U.S. highlights the impact of gentle, respectful care given to modern families. The CuddleCot plays a transformative role by giving grieving families precious time with their babies, allowing them to create cherished memories and say goodbye in their own way.

In many NICUs, compassionate staff now encourage families to stay with their baby as long as needed, allowing them the space to share stories, hold, and bond for those sacred hours or days.

💬 “One of the most impactful changes that has happened at the five hospitals in our city with neonatal intensive care units (NICU) has been the understanding that these parents, especially those who are suffering a miscarriage or stillbirth or imminent death, need time – time to be with their babies, time to tell them all the stories of a lifetime, time to be a family for a few sacred hours or days.”

💬 “Some of the funeral professionals have done an amazing job working with the NICU hospital staffs, educating and collaborating with them to provide a much more healing and safer environment to begin their grieving journey. Previous policy was often that the baby might stay with the mom or parents for a short period of time, but then the baby would be taken to the morgue and the funeral home made the removal from there. Sometimes the parents were just encouraged to hand the baby over and go home – a sterile, unemotional, and empty way for parents to say goodbye. “

💬”Then came the CuddleCot. The CuddleCot is internationally recognized across the world as helping parents who suffer the loss of a baby. It is used extensively in the British Isles, where more than 95% of British, Scottish, and Irish hospitals and hospices utilize one or more CuddleCot™. It is also used in other European and Australian hospitals. Dealing with the death of a baby is a difficult event for parents, and an increasing number of U.S. hospitals are looking at how they can improve their bereavement services to parents.”

The CuddleCot helps make this possible, empowering NICU teams and funeral professionals to work together in supporting families through their loss.

➡ Read more from Glenda Stansbury in the Dodge Magazine: https://themazwellgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Dodge-Magazine-Summer-2024-1.pdf#page=24

➡ Learn more about the CuddleCot at cuddlecot.com | info@flexmort.com

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