1. Provide exceptional care that supports mental and emotional healing.

In these terrible situations, there is an unspoken burden. The death of a child can place an extremely heavy emotional weight on the nurse as well. The Caring Cradle provides an outlet to feel they are doing something right during a tragic situation.

When a nurse has a Caring Cradle to offer the mother, the nurse is able to provide the exceptional medical care, compassion, and comfort that is both the calling and the heart’s desire of all nurses.

Mothers report that having this extra time is a treasured resource to draw on for the years to follow: helping them grieve and most importantly, remembering their child.

2. Allow families uninterrupted time with confidence that you won’t need to check in on them constantly.

The nurse will not need to remain bedside with a distraught mother. The Caring Cradle is designed to assist the nurse, as it requires no supervision, monitoring, or maintenance. Once turned on, the Caring Cradle may be left on, without any need for further intervention by the nurse.

The Caring Cradle operates consistently and does not create confusion during shift changes and staff rotations. There will not be a long list of additional tasks to unload onto the nurse taking over.

3. The Caring Cradle integrates into the unit’s flow.

A Caring Cradle will fit seamlessly into a unit’s existing care protocols. It will not interrupt the pacing or the protocol of L&D or postpartum care.

It is easy to clean and requires little-to-no maintenance. There are no tubes, wires or fluids to monitor or replace. It does not require replacement parts.

There are no special requirements for clean up. It can be wiped down with any hospital approved cleaner.



4. Special training is not required to use it, especially for families or patients.

While we do offer a 15-minute training video that can be saved and shared for training purposes, their truly is very little to “learn” to use it. The Caring Cradle looks like a real cradle rather than a complicated medical device, and its use is self explanatory. The design does not distract from its purpose.

With a Caring Cradle the mother will have the opportunity to do what she wants and what she needs: spend private, uninterrupted time with her baby, have time to make memories, and the time to say good-bye.

5. It is often the nurses who advocate to have a Caring Cradle in their unit.

It is usually a nurse who advocates for the kind of quality care that can’t be measured or evaluated by a hospital board. Many hospitals have added Caring Cradle to their units because of a compassionate nurse who spoke up for what grieving families truly need.

We are most often contacted by nurses who experience the devastation of a family's grief firsthand. After they’ve been in a position where they can provide a Caring Cradle to a grieving mother, they don’t want to find themselves in the same position without one.

The Caring Cradle is a tool for the nurse, as much as a gift of time for the mother. Providing this specialized tool at the right time says more to a family than anything that could be put into words.

Nurses want to provide compassionate bereavement care to their patients. With the Caring Cradle, they can.

Making Memories in Those Precious Moments

"Frankly, I just needed more time. Time to process what just happened. Time to take a breath. Time to think that maybe we should have called a photographer. I wish I had had time to snuggle him and rock him. A Caring Cradle® is an amazing support tool that can provide that extra time to a family that finds themselves in a situation of needing more time."

Pamela Ferguson, mother of Declan James, born sleeping January 17, 2017.