Jacki Cohoon’s twin brothers passed away 10 hours after they were delivered. She's now become an Angel Gown seamstress to help other families through the same devastating situation.
The Iowa woman spends hours of her day taking apart donated wedding dresses and sewing them into clothes for deceased premature babies. While some premature babies thankfully survive, there are approximately 1 million each year who do not.
Cohoon makes these dresses so babies can be laid to rest with dignity.
“There are no clothes for preemies. You can’t buy them,” she said in tears. “It just makes me feel really good to know that these babies are not in bits of cloths or diapers or things too big for them.”
The Angel Gown program began in 2013 as part of NICU Helping Hands. It’s helped women like Rebecca Bruce, who lost her child at 39 weeks.
"It just makes you feel good to know that for once as a mom you don't have to worry about having go out and find the garments, but for two that your little baby is just cloaked in something so beautiful for all of eternity," Bruce said.
Cohoon, who got involved with the Angel Gown Program in 2014, believes this is her “true calling.”
“I do it for my brothers and for my mom,” she says. “I’ll never give it up. I’ll do it forever, as long as I can.”
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