Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

There's no "Picture of the Week". Instead I'm reporting on a photo session at the Leicester General Hospital Saturday evening.

Each month I get a number of names and addresses for new mums or mums 2 be. About once a quarter I receive an email announcing a "deceased baby". Feeling that there must be something I could do to help these families I volunteered to work for the charity Now I Lay Me Doen To Sleep.

Thursday morning I received an email from a mum 2 be who had just learned that her unborn baby would be still born at 25 weeks on Saturday, could I help. So I found myself at Leicester General 9.30pm Saturday evening and was ushered into the labour room just minutes after little J... had been stillborn. My task was to capture little J... to give the couple a lasting image of their lost child.

As a NILMDTS photographer I give my time, travel and images to the parents for NO CHARGE. The parents will receive a CD with my images retouched to clean up some of the defects, they can then use my images in whatever manor they like.

Rest assured that I'll not be placing any NILMDTS images on my BLOG.

If you know anybody who unfortunately may be in need of this service than do give me a call; 0774 034 6923.

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

After some deep thought we volunteered to be local photographers for the Charity Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

"The Now I Lay ME Down To Sleep Foundation is there for parents and families to help aid them in their healing, bring hope to their future, and honour their child. It is through rememberence that a family can truly begin to heal."

The Foudation have reviewed our web site and selected KiddyPix to be one of their affiliated photographers. We will be covering the Nottingham, Mansfield, Derby, Leicester, Grantham and Newark areas.

I'm sure this will be a challenging task, and NONE of these images will appear on this BLOG.

Sandy Puc - Top American Childrens Photographer

Last week we took time out of our busy schedules to go to a seminar hosted by the top American bumps and babies photographer Sandy Puc. This slender lady packs a lot of energy and enthused her audience with her baby photography.

Sandy also introduced us to NILMDTS (Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep). I have always been surprised at the number of deceased baby's reported on the lists of new born I receive monthly. Although not a very high number as a percentage of baby's born, these must be extremely distressing to the parents involved. Anything we can do in our small way to help is why we hope to become involved with this worthwhile charity very soon.