Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (NILMDTS) is a U.S. based charitable organization operating worldwide, that offers free professionally taken photographs of stillborn babies and babies who die early in life.
[1][2][3] Founded in 2005 in Colorado by photographer Sandy Puc' and parents Cheryl and Mike Haggard[4] whose baby died as an infant,[2] the organization is active in all 50 states, plus 40 other countries,[5] including Ireland[6] and Canada.
This cultural shift was accompanied by a rejection of emotional bonding with stillborn babies, and infants who had died.
[8] Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep is part of this increased concern for the emotional needs of grieving parents.
[9] Describing their photos, one mother wrote "They are not gruesome, they are not offensive, they are not graphic, nor are they violent".