I decided to watch a movie this afternoon on Net.flix. I settle upon a movie titled Silent Cradle. I read through the synopsis it was about a journalist who after having a stillbirth discovered an adoption ring at the hospital where she delivered.
I thought it would be interesting, possibly a little disturbing for me but some days I am all for being sappy and whatever.
Immediately I recognized that this movie although over 10 years old was filmed right her in the city where I live. I saw various landmarks and the credits of course confirmed it.
One of the scenes in the movie is the stillbirth of a baby. In one part they show the mother saying goodbye to her baby who's already been placed in the cedar box, then the nurse takes the box to the morgue and signs the morgue book. I've not seen the cedar box before but I know about it. You see when I ordered my medical records after Gavin's death the "procedure" for the nurses following a stillbirth/infant death were included. Things like clean baby, collect mementos, place body into the cedar box, the nurse must accompany and sign baby into the morgue book.
Before I saw this movie my idea of the cedar box was of a plain wooden box, kind of like a coffin I suppose. The actual cedar box is painted white and emblazoned with the words OB/GYN, the "toe tag" attached to a metal latch. Of course I've never actually seen "the box" in real life but I am guessing since some of the scenes were shot at the very hospital where I delivered it could be an accurate representation of "the box" used here in the city for baby loss.
There have been several births and BFPs in the last while.....me well still waiting to O. Fabulous....not.
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