{"id":250092,"date":"2021-07-31T15:33:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T20:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=250092"},"modified":"2021-07-30T15:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T20:40:51","slug":"gowns-infant-loss-stillborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/gowns-infant-loss-stillborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Grieving mother creates burial gowns for families facing pregnancy and infant loss"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

When Heidi Flint-Jones of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, suffered the tragedy of giving birth to a stillborn child, she felt intense grief when she realized that the hospital had nothing small enough to fit her tiny son for his burial. At\u00a03 \u00bd ounces\u00a0and 6 \u00bd inches long, little\u00a0Matthew Aaron Jones had to be wrapped in a hospital blanket and nothing else.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a lot of guilt over that,\u201d Flint-Jones told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal<\/a>. She\u00a0wanted to ensure that no other parent who suffered infant loss would carry the same guilt.<\/p>\n

As part of her healing process, she founded Mattie’s Memory<\/a>, an organization dedicated to providing memory bags, blankets, hats, teddy bears, burial gowns, and bereavement support items to local hospitals for women who suffer pregnancy and infant loss.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re set up to help families who experienced the loss of a child during pregnancy and infancy,\u201d Flint-Jones said.<\/p>\n

\u00a0