Family Testimonials

We said goodbye to our gorgeous girl 2 weeks ago, and I wanted to thank you all personally for giving us the chance to spend the night with her, to hold her and love on her for the short time we had.

Family and friends were able to meet our angel and we were able to show her the love that we needed to give. Forever loved, forever missed but we held our girl Calliee Hâf for as long as we needed

My daughter, Liliana Marie Butler, was born on November 3, 2023 while I was home alone. I was only 16 weeks 5 days along. She was my first pregnancy and I didn’t realize I had been in labor for several hours until she was born. I called for an ambulance because I knew something was seriously wrong.

The ambulance rushed me to the hospital and I was immediately taken back for surgery because I couldn’t pass the placenta and was losing a lot of blood. After surgery, my only thought was about Lily. I wanted my daughter. My husband had told me that he got to hold her while I was in surgery and I was honestly jealous because at this point it had been several hours since her birth. I didn’t think I would get the opportunity to see her or hold her.

Then a nurse brought her and CuddleCot into my hospital room. Because of CuddleCot I was able to see and hold my daughter for as long as wanted. I was able to rest after my surgery knowing my daughter was safe beside me. The first few times I woke up from quick naps, I was in a panic that she was gone but being able to look over at her in the CuddleCot instantly calmed me. Yes I understood she was dead but having her body there to hold, to talk to, to grieve over somehow made it easier to understand what was going on. It also helped my husband process what was going on. He could hold, love on her, and check on her when his emotions and grief became too much.

After a day and a half with Lily, we were both emotionally ready to say goodbye to her and allow her to be taken to the mortuary. If it wasn’t for CuddleCot, we never would have been able to have this time with her. She is my only child and for a brief time I was able to hold her, love her, and experience being her mother before saying goodbye. I can honestly say that if we didn’t have that time with her, my husband and I would not have been able to mentally recover from losing her. We both love and miss Lily but we both look back at that day and half with her fondly.

I believe every parent who goes through something like this should be able to have this opportunity if they want it. The world expects parents to just get over the loss of their child like it never happened but until this happens to them, they don’t understand how hard it is to go from feeling life inside of you to not having that child around anymore. It takes time for the mind to understand what happened and CuddleCot made it easier for both me and my husband to process what was happening and allow us to say goodbye in a way that didn’t feel rushed or abrupt.

I always knew you could have time in the hospital/hospice, but I never knew you could take them home.

We had 12 days with Hendrix at home, and those 12 days away from the hospital setting after he passed were so important to me. He was a little 2 year old, so fitted perfectly on the mat designed for babies. It meant I could still snuggle him and have that much needed extra time before he went off to the funeral directors

When our son, William was born sleeping, the CuddleCot gave us the opportunity to spend time together as a family; creating memories, taking pictures, holding him and cuddling him, all whilst preserving our sons body for the time we spent with him.

The CuddleCot gave us the opportunity to make the decisions we needed to, and when the time was right for us to say goodbye, we did so in our own time.

Having a CuddleCot literally changed our lives, without one, we would not have had this time with him, and we would not have the memories we have which are so incredibly cherished

We took our son home for three nights in the CuddleCot that we borrowed from the hospital. We are so grateful to have had that opportunity.

I would like to say thank you to CuddleCot for existing and being available at my local hospital. My son was stillborn at 36 weeks in June 2019 and I had (like most people) not heard of a CuddleCot but it was without a doubt the most treasured aspect of the care we received. We were able to spend the saddest yet most special moments of our lives with him and that was all down to the CuddleCot. The alternative (which I believe some people probably forget) of retrieving him from the morgue and worrying about him being cool would have been detrimental in our time of need and I really do feel so grateful we were able to have access to it. Thank you!

Until the day of our boys’ delivery, I had never heard of a CuddleCot or had a clue how precious one would come to be for our story,” says Jessica, a Maine mother of twins, one of which was stillborn. Thankfully, the hospital in which she delivered was equipped with a Cuddle Cot. “I feel so grateful to have been able to keep our stillborn son close by in the CuddleCot every moment until we chose to hand him to the funeral home director. I ache to hear the stories of mothers having to repetitively be separated from their baby during those precious few hours. Every moment counts when it’s your only hellos and goodbyes.

“I got to spend the most precious two hours with Rachael, Tom, Henry and his other Nannie and Auntie.

Thank you for this precious joy of meeting my darling grandson.”

We lost our Leo when he was born on 13th June which is only a few days off of Fathers Day. For me personally it’s one of the hardest days of the year, the time at which I feel the “void” hit me the most. I am so so grateful to have my eldest daughter and our rainbow baby here now to fill me with love but I can never not feel like my son should be here sharing laughs and creating memories together, doing father and son experiences….

One thing I do heavily rely on around this time of year are the small amount of memories that I was able to create with Leo. We were at Broomfield hospital in the Blossom Suite and thankfully they had access to a cold cot. It meant I could clean and dress my son. It meant we as a family could have our cuddles and kisses and I am forever grateful for having access to that. It made us feel like we weren’t rushed through the hospital doors after our loss, we were actually encouraged to spend as much time as we needed with Leo and this really helped us at the time.

I’m so grateful we got to use a CuddleCot with our baby, Ness. It meant we were able to spend more time with her. Because it’s a pad underneath the baby, it doesn’t look cold or clinical at all. That felt important so we could dress her and snuggle her in blankets. She looked so peaceful tucked in.

I had really ambivalent feelings about repeatedly picking her up to hold her, but having a CuddleCot gave me time to do this and somewhere to gently lay her down. It meant grandparents could visit, and we could make mementos.

The single most important thing a professional said to me was that it was an honou to be with our baby—that the very fact so few people would meet her made it feel like sacred work. I will never, ever forget that, and how tenderly and respectfully she treated our baby.

Our little girl passed away at 28 weeks, the CuddleCot gave us 8 hours to spend with our precious girl. It would have been so much more painful if CuddleCots weren’t a thing. I couldn’t thank you guys enough”

“Epworth Hospital had a CuddleCot which allowed us to spend five days with Arlo as I recovered from my C-section. It was the most amazing thing to help us grieve.”

“People grieve differently. We weren’t able to have a lifetime with Arlo, but we were able to have some time with him. If it wasn’t for the CuddleCot, we wouldn’t have been able to have that time."

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