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Rexburg locals and grieving parents donate to the Angel Babies program

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Channel: East Idaho News · 2016 · News & Politics

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REXBURG – VO: Parents who’ve lost the thing most precious to them are taking an active role in giving back to others who are grieving

SOT: “To us this bear represents our sweet baby that is no longer with us. He represents love, faith, tender mercies, sorrow, and the joy all in one,” Nurse Jill Clawson says.

VO: Jill Clawson, a nurse at Madison Memorial Hospital, is reading a poem from a mother who lost a baby at less than 20 weeks in the womb. It’s that mother, and community members who are donating items to the Madison Angel Babies Program.

SOT: “We just recently got, donated to us from a family, this bear and book from a mom who lost her baby, and she is going through the grieving process,” nurse Jill Clawson says. 

VO: The Angel Babies program provides coping and burial services to those who’ve lost a baby before birth.

SOT: “It’s really interesting how so may parents use different items like this and do such acts of kindness to help with their grieving process and to put forth that effort to help other grieving mom’s,” Jill says.  

VO: Local Tiffany Clifford was on the receiving end of these acts of kindness. Her baby was the first to be buried at the Angel Babies gravesite at Sutton Cemetery in Archer. 

SOT: “They had a little coffin. It was just a little wooden box that a little Eagle Scout had made and donated to the hospital. They donated that. They donated a blanket to wrap him up in. And then all of the services,” Tiffany said. 

VO: And on the giving end, an Eagle Scout who at first, didn’t realize his efforts were worth something. 

SOT: “I slowly realized that this Eagle project wasn’t about me. I didn’t need to accomplish something. Someone else was going to use these boxes, and needed these boxes,” Easton Shaum says. 

VO:  Tiffany is grateful to her nurses, and all those who’ve made efforts for the Angel babies program, and to the Eagle Scout she has a small message. 

SOT: “Thank you. I don’t know what I would have done with out his little service and I’m really surprised that a boy his age would even think of that and be willing to do such an amazing thing for us moms who have to go through this. It helped a lot,” Tiffany says. 

VO: In Rexburg, I’m Natalia Hepworth. EastIdahoNews.com

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