Baby Sister Sent Home

Kataraina's mum was five months' pregnant when the results came back on Friday 24 November 2006 that confirmed the unborn child was also afflicted with NKH.

Kat's parents made the decision to send the baby home, and on Wednesday 29 November 2006, after an induced labour, the baby was delivered stillborn.

On Thursday Mum and Dad picked up their wee baby, who had been dressed in tiny hand-knitted clothes by the lovely ladies at the hospital.

That afternoon, the rain stopped long enough to bury Purerehua (Butterfly) beneath the headstone of her father's sister who had passed away in 1997 at the age of 21.

It is a terrible sight to witness the absolute grief of parents burying their child, and it is no less heart-wrenching to see it more than once.

Our hearts go out to Myrene and Calvin both for their loss.

Arohanui,
Aunty Eva xox