nilmdts photography

[FrankS]

I've not heard of this before and just stumbled upon it tonight on the net. I don't think I could do this. I'd get too emotional.

http://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/area_coordinators/

 

[Al Kaplan]

Interesting! I just ran across a box of Kodachrome II slides from about 1973. My wife had a spontaneous miscarriage and the foetus was about 30mm long. I shot some photos of it in my open hand and some on a white background. It was one of those mysteries of life and death. There were no deformities and the doctor thought it was male. I'm glad that I photographed him though. A couple of years later our daughter got her little brother. They're both still healthy and my son and his wife gave us a grandaughter a couple of yeas ago.

 

[willie_901]

I thought about volunteering for NILMDTS. I talked to a physician friend who worked in the maternity ward of a very large hospital. He told me two things. The nurses ask the parents and then photograph the deceased infant when permission is given. He felt that NILMDTS would be a terrific mental burden. He told not to do it. He said the only way he can deal with that type of loss is to cherish every stressful birth. But a NIOLMDTS photographer only sees sadness and loss... over and over again.

So, I took his advice, and I have great deal of admiration and respect got all the NILMDTS photographers.