What is a Cuddle Cot?

A Cuddle Cot is a cooling system that has been designed to fit within a small cot. It cools a deceased baby’s core body temperature, delaying the natural bodily processes giving families, like us, more time with their baby. This gift of time reassures parents that they can spend as much time as they like with their baby holding them, rocking them, and loving on them while they come to terms with their loss. To read more about Cuddle Cots, please click here.

Our story?

Our journey started in 2010 with the loss of our first baby at almost 12 weeks. In the last 9 years, we’ve experienced 4 additional miscarriages, 4 corrective surgeries, 7 procedures, 2 internal infections, 4 rounds of Clomid, 1 failed IUI, 1 IVF Egg Retrieval & ICSI, and 3 FET’s. In April 2019 we were overjoyed to learn that our third embryo transfer was successful, and soon after we found out that we were expecting a precious baby girl in December 2019. We gave her a name dear to our hearts, Evelyn Jade. A family name, a name with significance, meaning “wished for child”. Oh how our hearts wished, prayed, and hoped for her for so many years.



Evie was growing strong and showing us more and more of her personality each day. She did not let her momma eat chocolate, hated the smell of bacon, and couldn’t be still. She chilled back with her hands behind her head or near her face often and kicked every chance she could. She was measuring perfectly with a strong heartbeat throughout our entire pregnancy. Sunday, August 4 was the start of what would be the hardest week of our life. After having some mild cramping and a gut feeling that something may be wrong, we decided to have me checked out in Labor and Delivery. We were shocked to learn that I had dilated, and my water was protruding through my cervix. The nurses and doctor’s sprung into action and made every attempt to keep my water from breaking. It broke Tuesday morning and within a couple hours my body was ridden with infection. We were given the unbearable news that although Evie’s heart was still beating, she had to be delivered and she wouldn’t make it. Evie passed away a few hours into my labor due to the infection overcoming my uterus. After hours of an agonizing labor, Evie was born still and embraced with loving arms. My delivery took a turn and I was wheeled off quickly to the OR due to severe blood loss. The doctors were able to save my life with 4 blood transfusions and surgery, but I lost several hours that I could have been spending cuddling Evie. Without the Cuddle Cot, I may not have been able to get more time after surgery with my daughter. The Cuddle Cot gave me that time back with her.

How Did the Cuddle Cot Help Us? The heartbreak of saying goodbye to a baby who has died before, during, or soon after childbirth comes with the added weight of limited time. We decided that we wanted to spend as much time as we could with Evie. When our nurses shared with us that another couple had donated a Cuddle Cot to our hospital in memory of their son, we were overwhelmed with gratitude that we would get to spend every second of the rest of our hospital stay with Evie.

The Cuddle Cot made a significant difference in the time that we were able to spend with Evie and we never felt pressured to say goodbye to her too quickly. Evie stayed in the Cuddle Cot next to the bed where we slept, and we held her as often as we wanted. We cuddled her, rocked her, sang to her, prayed with her, talked to her, laughed with her, and were able to admire every one of her beautiful traits, specifically her daddy’s button nose.

The Cuddle Cot made the hardest days of our life bearable and gave us memories with our daughter that we will cherish forever.

How Can You Help? In loving memory of Evie we would really love to be able to donate a Cuddle Cot to a hospital in need. Any donation will be welcomed and will help to provide future families the same opportunity that we had.

From the bottom of our hearts, Micheal, Evie, and I thank you for your love, support and prayers.