Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Support Group

WE HAVE 2 PICS OF EMMA IN HER STONE.ONE MY WIFES FAV AND MY FAV.I VISIT EVERY DAY AND I LIKE SEEING HER PIC RATHER THAN JUST HER NAME.AND I THINK THE TWO PICTURES HELP.

If you look at my pictures, I have a pic of the proof and the actual stone. We have a picture of Mason on it too and I love seeing his precious face when I am there.

I have pics of Ari's stone too. I don't have her picture on her stone, but we love the one we picked out. There were regulations for the baby section at the cemetary she is buried at, so it's smaller than we wanted, but we love it all the same.

I have a picture of Joey's stone in my photos. We had a teddybear put on his stone instead of his picture. My husband didn't like the idea of having his pic on there as it was too personal - which I agree. It was hard enough to see his name on the stone. That of course was just our personal opinion. Feel free to look at Joey's.

I couldn't do a picture either...I think that is totally a personal choice as to what you think that you would like to see. We got the pinkest and shinest stone we could find...Just did her name and engraved "our little angel" and in between her dates is a very pretty, childlike angel. I can't bring myself to post pictures yet...it is too soon for me. I'm just warning you...buying it and picking ours out was an awful process...you can read my journal about it. I just wish that someone had warned me. But, now that is all over, I love that it is pretty and shiny...her permenant vase is silver and sparkly and looks just like a pair of shoes I always used to put on her and she loved to stare at them.

i couldn't do a picture either, and i was limited to granite and copper stone. so i got a baby sitting with a lamb. it's in my pictures.

I have a pic on Curtis's stone.....but that was just our personal choice. I was able to include a baby sleeping on a cloud. But the size and layout was pretty much regulated by the cemetery. I think I have a picture of his stone in my pics too. But im sure whatever you choose will just fine. Just do whats right for you because its your child and you have to look at it......So make sure they do it right and they do something that you are happy with!!

we have one pic of Bryce. we also have a vase 4 the flowers. last we have little hearts going around the headstone with an angle on the opposite side of his pic.

My husband is muslim so my baby could not have a pic on his stone. It does say beloved son of both of our names ( literally) because for some reason that was so important to me. It has a base over his grave and then an upright. I never got to give him all the things in life I wanted to, so in death I wanted him to have everything. Its solid granite. My husband gets his final greencard in teh spring, refuses to have another baby with me and I am bracing for when he gets his permanent card that he will just walk out the door and never return. I have really gotten used to abandonment and goodbyes since my son died. When your baby dies, you just dont see anything as really forever anymore

This is the same dilema we are in. Where we live you are only allowed the flat stones and you are limited on the size. We didn't want the standard baby angel floating on a cloud or teddy bear but something that would make people stop and ponder/remember. Sage's name reminds us of the color green so we are going with an imported green granite. We will have a picture of him. Sage meant so many things to each of us so we have decided to let each person in the family choose one name that represents how they felt about Sage. These names will be lasered randomly on his head stone in different types of fonts. Words like, Happy, sweet, loving, giggles, tank(Uncle Roy's nickname for him). Any way that's where we are at in the design phase. We have decided that we have plenty of time to do this...it's not like you can easily change your mind at a later date.