Thanks to CM reader Daria for sending me the link to Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, an organization that helps parents of dying and deceased infants find volunteer photographers to capture their newborn and family free of charge–sometimes during the final hours or days of the baby’s life. The images are so touching and unbelievable. And painful. The story of the group’s two founders and their baby is here, and I too couldn’t read the whole thing without crying.

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