Baby Gown Smocking for Stillborns
a Service Project
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Oh wow, as soon as I wrote my last articleLink, I read our church's April newsletter (under "Enrichment Night)...and it says that a smocking class is being taught in April. How wonderful is that? I'll be there. 
(Explanation if you aren't familiar with what I wrote earlier: There's an ongoing service project at church in which the sisters make bereavement blankets and itty-bitty smocking gowns for stillborns at the Landstuhl Hospital. When I first heard about it, I thought, "How morbid." Then I came across it again more recently, at a time my heart was a little softer...and I thought, "How wonderful, that these babies will be buried in clothing that so much love was poured into, just for them..." and I wept for the little ones, and for their mothers whose hearts are aching. )![]()
(Explanation if you aren't familiar with what I wrote earlier: There's an ongoing service project at church in which the sisters make bereavement blankets and itty-bitty smocking gowns for stillborns at the Landstuhl Hospital. When I first heard about it, I thought, "How morbid." Then I came across it again more recently, at a time my heart was a little softer...and I thought, "How wonderful, that these babies will be buried in clothing that so much love was poured into, just for them..." and I wept for the little ones, and for their mothers whose hearts are aching. )
