Grace - Picture of Grace and donation information

A lot of people have asked me for pictures of Grace. We only have one right now but we will be posting many more once we have them available to us. The one I am attaching is from the hospital. They were so wonderful, especially after the experience we had at the first hospital. Grace was delivered breech and we were allowed all the time we wanted with her. They cleaned her up (manicure and all) and made molds of her feet using playdoh (after we tried unsuccessfully to get them made, the plaster stuff we were using was taking the skin off her little feet). As you can see in the picture her skin was peeling off, the worst was on the right side of her face and her abdomen. This was a result of her being passed away in the tummy for several days. When I saw her for the first time I didn't even see the skin peeling, I saw a perfect baby girl, with beautiful features, including mommy's nose :)





It was clear to us once we left Banner Desert Hospital that they were the organization God wants us to support in Grace's memory. Several people have asked where they could donate, in Grace's honor, so I am posting the information for the hospital as well.

Banner Desert Hospital is a high level trauma hospital and unfortuantely they have a very busy infant bereavement services department. They have an incredibly well trained and supportive staff and when we said "you guys are so good to us but I suppose you get used to it, dealing with babies dying everyday" the reply we got was "we've never met you or your baby, so we don't get used to it". Although they get some funding from the hospital I think the programs for patients that survive get the bulk of the money. They were genuinely caring people who rely on donations for funding their program. Donating to bereavement services probably never crosses the minds of the parents of the children who live and go hoome healthy from the hospital so the donating is left to the parents of the babies who don't come home and the select few who may be touched enough to donate in one of those babies memory. If you would like to donate in Grace's memory, here is how to do it:

Banner Health Foundation
Call: 602-747-4483
Mail check to: Banner Health Foundation PO Box 1897 Phoenix, AZ 85001-9940

Hospital donating to: Banner Desert Medical Center

If you donate $50 (silver leaf) or $100 (gold leaf) they will place a leaf in the "tree of life" garden in the hospital and you can choose a message to have displayed (up to 50 characters)

Grace's information is this:
Grace Debbie Shedd
10-15-2009
8:32pm

I am posting an image of the donation envelope but I don't know how well it will show up...




This hospital is extremely dear to our hearts and we truly believe God led us there to deliver Grace. They were wonderful to us and we want to pay it forward to them.

THANKS EVERYONE!!