Special Projects

Special Projects

Please see if you or your patient qualifies for this service, prior to contacting me. It is extremely difficult to not provide my services for any family in a difficult situation but I do many Volunteer sessions and my services must be utilized for these families only.

Thank you in advance for your understanding in this matter.

This FREE service is for:

Parents experiencing a critically ill newborn, extremely premature newborn or early infant loss at any stage.

Parents of terminally diagnosed children staying in the Hospital or at Home.

If your child has been given an "unknown" life expectancy please contact me I am happy to consider these sessions as well.

All of my sessions are done at your discretion and the images given to you on a printable CD. Your images will print to a 5x7, in the event that you want larger prints you receive a 50% discount on anything you need. This is only to ensure quality printing of the larger images.

Rest in peace sweet angel and may the lord carry your Mommy & Daddy safely through your loss. My prayers are with them every day.

I currently visit the Christiana NICU on a monthly basis, but please do not hesitate to contact me if you, or someone you know, will be needing my services sooner.

I spend about three hours in the NICU and will visit with anyone who signs up for Portraits.

This FREE service is offered in connection with the March of Dimes.

I visit AI Dupont on an as needed basis, I do go bedside and am typically contacted by the Social Workers.

I NEED your help!
I am trying to provide the wonderful staff at Christiana Hospital with a better camera. All to often a Baby is lost, being born to soon, I can not always be there. They take Photographs for these grieving parents, these pictures are printed to a 4x6 and given to the family. That's it! There are NO negatives, NO digital file, all they have is a 4x6 picture of the ONLY moments they will ever have with their baby!
PLEASE help me! I have a Camera I would like to give them, but need to raise money to re-coop some of the cost. Then I am hoping to start a program called "Memory for Memories" where I will accept donations of Memory Cards for these Families. What this will do is give them full resolution images that the can print, share and KEEP forever!

ALL donations will receive a LIFETIME credit for Portraits valued at twice the dollar amount of that donation. You will receive a special certificate that you can keep to use when I resume service or give as a gift.
ALL Memory Card donations will be worth $50.00 in Portraits. We need Compact Flash at 256mb, I do not care if they are used or not. Each one will be tested prior to being used at the hospital.

If you are interested in helping out with any of this please send me an e-mail.

You can also visit the Shopping page, all purchases there go to supporting my Volunteer services.

Thank you so much for your support!!

Some
of us understand first hand how important it is to have these
portraits. These may be the only moments you ever have. Your lifetime
memories of your child may only be days or weeks. If there was ever a
better time or reason to get portraits done it is right now.

"When you only have a moment... the urgency of memory consumes you,

you force yourself to take in every detail,

you attempt to heighten your senses, all the while....in tears.

Your not thinking of tomorrow, You only have today!

You don't know how your going feel or think, your emotions have swallowed you whole.

Will you remember, will you have captured this moment forever?"

~ Katie Siano ~

Why I do this.

During my pregnancy with my oldest son, we found out that he had kidney problems. The last three months were terrifying. With level 2 ultrasounds every 1 - 2 weeks
and knowing that medication was going to be the very first thing he ingested. Thankfully, if you didn't know he was sick you wouldn't have been able to tell.
He came 5 weeks early at 5.3 pounds. Over the next few weeks my poor baby was poked and prodded in every way possible, test after test. Then surgery was scheduled.
He was 5 weeks old and only weighed as much as a normal full term baby, he was so tiny. Now, I will never be able to explain how this all felt,
all I know is that my heart was no longer in "me" it was in him. I could see it beating within his chest and if it stopped I would die with him.
The night before surgery we were giving him a bath and through my tears I snapped a couple of pictures. We wouldn't know my camera malfunctioned until
he was in intensive care fighting for life. I was devastated, what if? I wouldn't have a picture of his last moments!
I watched my beautiful boy knock on heaven's door three times, repeat surgeries and blood transfusions. I Thank God everyday that he didn't answer!
To this day, I cry. I cry for the woman who didn't cry then. Some of us go into "protect" mode. We think of nothing else but the details.
Who is caring for my child, how much medication is he being given, is he getting the right this & that...... We don't always stop to think, we don't always know,
what if and how am I going to handle it if it happens.

I am a proud member of the ACPCG!

For complete details and Photographer listings by State please visit the ACPCG website.