{"id":5729,"date":"2025-01-01T14:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T14:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2025-01-01T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T14:02:55","slug":"if-you-see-a-purple-butterfly-sticker-near-a-newborn-you-need-to-know-what-it-means-check-the-first-comment%f0%9f%98%b1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/archives\/5729","title":{"rendered":"If you see a purple butterfly sticker near a newborn, you need to know what it means.\u200b\u200b\ud83d\ude31"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Millie Smith and Lewis Cann were over the moon upon the revelation that they would become parents. Having a number of twins in their family, Millie had the gut feeling that she was carrying two babies herself, and her mother\u2019s instinct didn\u2019t fail her.\n
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The ultrasound showed that she was indeed expecting twins, but even at the beginning of the pregnancy, doctor\u2019s could determine that one of the babies wasn\u2019t likely to survive.\n

When Millie gave birth at 30 weeks pregnant, they were told that one of their daughters had anencephaly, a life-limiting condition where the baby\u2019s brain and spinal cord (the fetal nervous system) do not develop properly.\n

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They were also told that their bundle of joy only minutes to hours to live.\n

Knowing this, her parents wanted to name her before they could say the final goodbye. They chose the name Skye.\n

\u201cWe knew that Skye needed to have a name before she was born,\u201d\u00a0Millie said.\u00a0\u201cKnowing she would only survive for seconds or minutes, I wanted her to be named during that time.\u201d\n

The meaning behind\u00a0\u201cSkye,\u201d\u00a0she explained,\u00a0symbolized\u00a0\u201csomewhere we knew she would always be, that we could look up at the sky and remember our baby.\u201d\n

\u201cWe were cuddling Skye when she passed away. This was the worst moment in our lives. I have never ever felt heartbreak like that before. But I am proud that she fought for so long to spend time with us.\u201d\n

Skye only lived for three hours, time her parents spent admiring her beauty and enjoying her presence into their lives.\n

Following her passing, the couple were provided with a\u00a0\u201cbereavement midwife\u201d\u00a0and a\u00a0\u201cDaisy Room,\u201d\u00a0a space where parents can be with their infant before and after death, to help them cope with the loss.\n

However, once the girl was gone, no one talked about her any more. Millie felt like her baby never even existed, and that made her mad.\n

\u201cMost of the nurses were aware of what had happened, but as time passed, people stopped talking about Skye. After about four weeks, everyone acted as though nothing had happened, meaning the families around me had no idea about our situation,\u201d\u00a0the grieving mother recalled.\n

As her other baby, Callie, was still at NICU, another mother who had just had twins on her own told Millie how lucky she was for not having twins, not knowing of Millie\u2019s loss.\n

\u201cNone of the other parents knew what had happened or anything about Skye. The comment was completely innocent and more out of humor\u2026They weren\u2019t to know that I did at one point have two.\u201d\u00a0Millie continued,\u00a0\u201cBut the comment nearly broke me. I ran out [of] the room in tears and they had no idea why. I didn\u2019t have the heart to tell them what had happened. A simple sticker would have avoided that entire situation.\u201d\n