By Katherine Hafner
The Virginian-Pilot 

After stillborn baby, couple starts burial gowns nonprofit

 


VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Heather Wilson flips through a scrapbook documenting the pregnancies and births of her two daughters.

There are hospital bands from the days she went into labor, portrait photos of her pregnant belly, stickers featuring storks and flowers.

The last page, devoted to her first daughter, Kennedy, features two tiny footprints.

"Big feet just like Mommy's!" the page says.

"This is all we have for Kennedy, are her footprints," Wilson says. "This is literally all we have."

Kennedy Milan Wilson died Aug. 17, 2009, delivered stillborn at Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk. Hea...



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