Glory Baby Ministry, Med Center Health Labor and Delivery provide memorial packages

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains the topic of infant loss. Reader and viewer discretion is advised. 

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Local nonprofit Glory Baby Ministry is teaming up with Med Center Health Labor and Delivery to provide burial and memorial packages to families experiencing loss.

According to a release by Glory Baby Ministry, the nonprofit’s packages will be available directly on the Med Center Health Labor and Delivery floor.

The release states this collaboration is to ensure families that experience “miscarriage, stillbirth or infant loss” can receive “immediate comfort, dignity and compassionate support during one of the most difficult moments of their lives.”

“This partnership is an incredible blessing to our ministry and our board,” said founder/executive director Jessica Heffinger. “It has brought healing in ways we did not anticipate and affirms the importance of meeting families with care in their moment of greatest need.”

According to the release, the partnership “carries deep personal significance” for those involved with Glory Baby Ministry, with two of its members having ties to infant loss on the same labor and delivery floor.

Glory Baby Ministry states the collaboration “brings meaningful healing through the knowledge that comfort, compassion and resources will now be available to families walking a similar path.”

“To the families who receive these packages,” the ministry shared, “You are seen, you are loved and you are not alone.”

Glory Baby Ministry states it extends sincere gratitude to the Med Center Health Labor and Delivery staff for “their compassion and commitment to supporting bereaved families.” Through this partnership, the nonprofit says hospital staff play an important role in helping bring “closure, healing and comfort to parents navigating unimaginable loss.”

To learn more about Glory Baby Ministry, click here.