BBC MAG - HOW ONE MAN SAVED A GENERATION OF PREMATURE BABIES Pictures of the babies and Martin Couney... and a full article.
Martin Couney, born in Krotoschen, Prussia in 1969, got married to Annabelle Segner in New York, in 1903. In 1907 Annabelle gave birth to a daughter Hildegarde six weeks early and weighing just three pounds. Keeping their daughter alive inspired them to help others. Their incubators were ahead of the times, and thousands of babies were saved - the majority of the premmies who were turned over to them. But our modern sensibilities are offended that the babies were shown on the Coney Island boardwalk for a 25 cent fee...
Just a note also, that the incubator babies were part of the set for the series Boardwalk Empire, which I recently binge watched for the first time and thought of as an excellent, extremely well written series.
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16 January 2016
ARTIST MAUREEN NOONAN GIFTS PARENTS OF DYING NEWBORNS PORTRAITS TO REMEMBER THEM BY
LINK TO "THE CATHOLIC KEY BLOG" here and read this wonderful, heartwarming article about the artist who gifts parents of dying newborns a portrait of their child.
CATHOLICKY.BLOGSPOT PORTRAITS OF NEWBORNS WHO ARE SICKLY by Marty Denzer
EXCERPT: She has created about 60 portraits of infants over the past years, working from photographs forwarded to her from Alexandra’s House. The perinatal hospice provides emotional, spiritual and logistical support services for families facing a pregnancy of a child that won’t survive.
“My sister in New Jersey has a niece who lost her baby at birth,” Noonan recalled. “She wanted a portrait of the baby, and my sister sent me a photograph. That first one was very hard — a dead baby, oh, that was hard. But after a while, I got past the photo and the artist in me took over.
CATHOLICKY.BLOGSPOT PORTRAITS OF NEWBORNS WHO ARE SICKLY by Marty Denzer
EXCERPT: She has created about 60 portraits of infants over the past years, working from photographs forwarded to her from Alexandra’s House. The perinatal hospice provides emotional, spiritual and logistical support services for families facing a pregnancy of a child that won’t survive.
“My sister in New Jersey has a niece who lost her baby at birth,” Noonan recalled. “She wanted a portrait of the baby, and my sister sent me a photograph. That first one was very hard — a dead baby, oh, that was hard. But after a while, I got past the photo and the artist in me took over.
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