[arizonarachel]

Having lost a baby during early pregnancy, I can assure you that I wanted nothing more than to cling to any memory I had of my baby boy. I had nothing, though. I would do this.

[TontoKowalski]

We had two early pregnancy losses before Tonto Junior came along. We mourned those losses at the time, and we still mourne them, not obsessively, but in what-could-have-been sort of way. I can completely understand parents wanting a photograph.

When my grandmother died, my mother was going through the cedar chest (yep, Southerners) and found a small picture torn from a magazine. She had handwritten a note that said, "This looks a little like L____. I never had a picture of him."

My grandmother's first baby had died, and the only thing she had to remember him by was a picture torn from a magazine... of a baby who looked a little like hers.