Losing a tiny baby - may help

A lot of parents who lose a premature baby either prior to to birth or shortly afterwards are very upset over the fact that they can't find clothes to bury their child in, as none fit.

A collegue's relative recently lost a baby at 24weeks and had this problem, so we looked online and found this website.

So sad that there has to be a need for them, but it's a fantastic service that they offer, very reasonably priced and seem to have a good turnaround

They also do 'baby bevreavement cribs' which I think would be an excellent idea for labour wards to have to put the babies in after birth as they are just so lost in a moses basket (designed for up to 1lb ish in weight)

Do hospitals not provide clothes for tiny babies? On our bereavement suite we have little clothes that I could probably fit on my hand.

The small moses basket is a great idea though, I agree they look very lost in a full sized one - but you'd have to be careful people didn't not notice a small moses basket and knock it etc.

Have you heard of calvins hats? People knit tiny baby hats and they give them out to hospitals... some hats fit on eggs etc!

even those the size of your hand are too big for these babies, most hospitals do have a few 'tiny baby' clothes which they can give out but I think they tend to start at the 3lbish mark

My hospital have really tiny clothes, they tend to be ones which you can kind of place on the baby though, as they're often quite fragile and they feel like they need some kind, gentle handling.

We also have varying sizes of moses baskets, although some of the tiny ones look more like bread baskets. I was always on the look out for really small ones when I was placed up there.

What a lovely idea, and I am sure it's the little-but-big things like this that make all the difference to bereaved parents.

With the moses basket comment, I am sure that if you were to put one of the teeny ones inside a larger one or a basinette them it would still be safe but also make the baby look less exposed and more cosy?

Can I ask a stupid question? Is that a little doll they've got in that one? Because the way it's hands are positioned it looks alive, but at the same time it looks to small to have actually survived... maybe I'm being thick about something.

http://www.facebook.com/calvinshats

I'm assuming it's a doll because on some of the clothes photos you can tell it's a doll, plus the arm to me isn't floppy enough for it to be a stillborn baby - and skin too good for a prem baby that size (their skin is so transluctant)

I do like with the site though that you provide measurements (they tell you what to measure) and they'll make it overnight for you - and included for hydrocephalus measurements for hats