This Kettering Family Shares How 500-plus Teddy Bears Have Filled Empty Hands When Hearts are Breaking
This Kettering Family Shares How 500-plus Teddy Bears Have Filled Empty Hands When Hearts are Breaking
Tyler and Sarah Kerlin, of Kettering, Ohio, share how losing their daughter Harper Ann Kerlin to stillbirth, and then going home with empty hands, led them to an act of love and compassion.
Establishing “Harpers Angel Bears”, the Kerlins honor their baby girl by purchasing teddy bears and donating them to local hospitals. This couple doesn’t want any other mother to leave the hospital with empty hands. Read more
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Scott and Alison Duley lost their son, William James Duley, in 2010, only a week after he was born.
When I designed the Caring Cradle, I knew that nurses needed helped when babies were stillborn.⠀
Two families shared a loss that every parent can’t bear to think of: losing their children to stillbirth.
In 2019 Meredith “Mera” Maimone only lived nine days. Her mother Kim Maimone of Fernandina Beach has used her loss to start a nonprofit that brings other families’ comfort.
After the loss of their daughter Harper in 2018, the Kerlins have raised enough money to donate a Caring Cradle and a Caring Cradle Mini to Christ Hospital in Mt. Auburn.
After hosting a fundraiser among family and friends. Arlee and Jonathon Hultgren Sr. were able to donate a Caring Cradle a little over a year after the loss of their infant son Jonathon Michael Jr.,
In Clovis California, a woman is helping families at her local hospital by giving families more time to grieve the loss of their baby. With “Project Loreal” she was able to get a Caring Cradle donated to Clovis Community Hospital.
As you know, the Caring Cradle is a device that cools the body of a baby immediately following stillbirth. The facts are that the changes a baby’s body goes through may be difficult to view or manage.
Again and again, the legacy of these babies shows us what compassion-in-action looks like. Their families honor their memories by giving in advance to other families who are unaware that stillbirth will become part of their future.