Healing Hearts Foundation successfully raised enough money to purchase a CuddleCot for Victoria General Hospital.
The CuddleCot, has been internationally recognized across the world as helping parents who suffer the loss of a baby. Dealing with the death of a baby is clearly an incredibly difficult event for parents. Bereaved parents are limited in the amount of time they get to spend with their baby. Providing families with time to grieve is encouraged by midwives, bereavement practitioners, stillbirth/neonatal charities, academics and is also recognized in International Position statements/guidance. Time allows the family to form an important bond with their baby; whether changing a diaper, dressing the baby or simply just to stay close this can help families in dealing with their loss. The problem is that in a warm room the baby’s condition can deteriorate quickly which parents often find distressing. Therefore, cooling the baby is absolutely essential. However, parents do not want the trauma of being separated from their baby whilst they are placed into a mortuary refrigerator to cool. The CuddleCot provides families with the opportunity to spend precious minutes with their baby, they would not have had before.
Times Colonist article
Metro Vancouver News article
CBC Radio News interview
CFAX Radio News interview (tune in to 33 minutes)
The CuddleCot, has been internationally recognized across the world as helping parents who suffer the loss of a baby. Dealing with the death of a baby is clearly an incredibly difficult event for parents. Bereaved parents are limited in the amount of time they get to spend with their baby. Providing families with time to grieve is encouraged by midwives, bereavement practitioners, stillbirth/neonatal charities, academics and is also recognized in International Position statements/guidance. Time allows the family to form an important bond with their baby; whether changing a diaper, dressing the baby or simply just to stay close this can help families in dealing with their loss. The problem is that in a warm room the baby’s condition can deteriorate quickly which parents often find distressing. Therefore, cooling the baby is absolutely essential. However, parents do not want the trauma of being separated from their baby whilst they are placed into a mortuary refrigerator to cool. The CuddleCot provides families with the opportunity to spend precious minutes with their baby, they would not have had before.
Times Colonist article
Metro Vancouver News article
CBC Radio News interview
CFAX Radio News interview (tune in to 33 minutes)
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