[fionaB]

my condolences to you and your family for your loss.

It had taken me a while to add to this thread as i found it very difficult to put words to my feelings about this, but i think i have managed to summarise it in a few sentences.

It must have taken a great deal of thought on the parents part and courage on your part.
I personally feel that it was a beautiful thing to do. And obviously as the parents asked you to do it, it was something that they wanted.
As has been said doing this is affirming the short life that the baby had, confirming to everyone that she was not "just" a still born, but was a real person in her own right.
I am sure in time to come they will be able to look back on these and remember her, instead of having only the memories that some people have.
obviously it is not something that every parent who loses a child can cope with at the time, but i would like to think that many a greiving parent in the future would look back at things and say . " I wish we had something solid to remember her/him by"

A lovely gesture and one that im sure will bring comfort, if not when they were taken because of the raw pain associated with it, but most certainly in the future.

Fi