July’s NICU family is another amazing story. I was connected through Meghan when we did our news story with Channel 3000 for Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep. Meghan and Brian told their story the week before for the same channel. Their story started out very much like ours, with their daughter being born just under 25 weeks, but thankfully their daughter...
NICU Family Feature: Alexander
Time for our monthly feature of a family who has endured a NICU stay with their baby. Juanita and Nathan are kind enough to share the story of their son, Alexander. When I went into labor at 32 weeks, I was terrified. My previous son was born at 35 weeks, and everyone told me how lucky I was that he didn’t...
McFarland couple donates gift of hope, support to St. Mary’s families
Submitted by Scott Beedy, Channel 3000 Community EditorFriday, June 24th, 2011, 3:22pm Last June, Melissa and Mike Terrill had an experience that changed them forever. The couple was busy preparing for their second child, but what they weren’t expecting was for their child to be born so early. Melissa gave birth on June 13 to Mikayla Grace, who weighed just more...
June 24, 2011
Today we made our first donation to St. Mary’s hospital. We donated 12 Angel memory boxes, 20 NICU care packages, 66 books, and 28 gowns with matching booties and hats!! And of course, to thank the amazing nurses who work at St. Mary’s we made them strawberry cupcakes. It just barely fit in the back of our car. We met...
NICU Family Feature: Caleb
As a way to increase awareness of what the families we serve go through, we are starting a new monthly feature allowing families who’ve had a NICU stay to share their stories. We hope that eventually these will be families that were able to utilize the NICU care packages that we provide at our local hospitals. I have met many people through...
Spreading Kindness in Mikayla’s Name
One month from today, will be Mikayla’s birthday. In thinking of how we want to celebrate her brief life on her birthday, we knew that we wanted to spread kindess to others. We are spending the month of June doing Random Acts of Kindness (RAOKs) in memory of Mikayla. We would love if you would join us in celebrating our little girl...
Group helps family cope with infant’s death
Professional Photographers Volunteer With Nonprofit GroupUpdated: 1:57 pm CDT May 5, 2011 MADISON, Wis. — A local couple is celebrating their daughter’s life with them, no matter how short that life was. Melissa and Mike Terrill found comfort working with Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, an organization made up of volunteer professional photographers who capture a fleeting moment between...
Second Month
Well, March has been another busy month for us with Mikayla’s Grace. We have over 150 followers on our facebook page and have raised almost $800 in our Flower Fundraiser!! If you haven’t purchased your flowers yet, you can still do that until April 29th! Flowers will start shipping in late April. Please help us spread the word about this fundraiser by sharing the link...
First month
It’s hard to believe we only started Mikayla’s Grace only a month ago..we have accomplished a lot in just a few short weeks. We are so excited about the possibilities that exist because we created this organization. A friend of ours that we met through our local bereavement group here in Madison, Rebecca, has offered to help us with the paper work to become an...