Kayla Meade and Elijah Grosvold, whose son was stillborn, are filling a Christmas stocking for another child in their son’s memory. In the foreground is a small quilt they received from the palliative care unit at Aberdeen Hospital.If all had gone well, Axton Edward Daniel Grosvold would be sitting up and reaching his little hands out to touch the ornaments on the Christmas tree this holiday season but like 3,000 Canadian babies a year, he was stillborn.
“At 9:30 a.m. I was video-chatting with my sister, showing her how Axton was kicking, and by 11:30 a.m. Elijah’s parents had rushed me to the Aberdeen Hospital. I was seen immediately and everything changed.” Grosvold, who is a casual employee in the housekeeping department at the hospital, also remembers being told the baby’s heart was no longer beating.Meade suffered a placental abruption and the umbilical cord was wrapped around her baby’s neck. Labour was induced but Meade quietly, desperately allowed herself to hope.
“The nurses gave us a beautiful little homemade quilt from the palliative care unit and we wrapped him in it for the undertaker. The quilt came back to us and we sleep with it every night.”“I left the first moment I could. They’d moved me to another room which helped a bit but I didn’t want to be around other mothers and their babies, I just couldn’t be,” said Meade.“My mother offered to pack everything away before I got home but I didn’t want that.
Axton, Meade points out, was to be the first grandchild on both sides of the family and the first boy in decades on her side so he would have been loved by many.Christmas used to be her favourite time of year but she was anxious about the upcoming holidays until she proposed to Grosvold that they fill a stocking for another child.
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