A drive is underway to get Auckland equipped with a cot that keeps precious stillborn babies cool, allowing parents to spend more time with their newborn.
The cuddle cot concept came from the UK and arrived on the radar of 37-year-old Auckland mother, Clare Montgomerie about 12-months-ago, following the loss her own baby girl, Kate, due to a placenta abruption.
The cuddle cot is a cooling system which fits inside a small bassinet, preserving babies who have died at birth. It allows grieving parents to spend more time with their newborn - to take pictures, hold their little one and grieve their loss.
"It would have made a huge difference to us because we had to put Kate back in the fridge to preserve her and when she wasn't in the fridge we had to put icepacks around her," Clare remembers.
"I was absolutely beside myself thinking I had to put her in the fridge, she was all alone, it was dark and all I wanted to do was keep her warm," she told the Herald online.
