"We have grave news..." these four words changed our lives forever.

We never imagined that the same day we welcomed our twin boys into the world would also be a day we would say goodbye to them.

This is why I am so grateful for the support we received from Bridget’s Bunnies and why we are asking you to participate in Bridget's Run this year.

Operated entirely by volunteers, this group provides comfort kits to families that have experienced a loss.

My husband and I received the infant loss kit, and our daughter received the sibling's loss kit.

In the kits were items we didn’t know we needed; including items to help capture memories of our boys. Every parent saves memorabilia of their child to look back on as they grow older. The memorabilia we created that day are the only ones we will ever get of our boys. I hold them dear to my heart.

The kits also included postpartum recovery products so that I didn’t have to stop into the pharmacy on the way home from the hospital.

We received bereavement books and resources for my husband and me. We also received a storybook for our daughter. Seeing our daughter was only 2.5 years old, we didn’t know how much of this she would understand. But we quickly realized that she was mourning the loss of her brothers in her own way, and the storybook was a helpful resource to walk her through what had happened to our family.

And lastly, we were given plush bunnies, two little ones for our daughter to hold as gifts from her brothers, and two for my husband and me should we need something to cradle when we couldn’t hold our babies.

Alison - Luke and Declan's Mom.