Millie Smith and Lewis Cann were thrilled to learn they were expecting twins.<\/p>\n
But joy turned to heartbreak when doctors discovered that one baby had anencephaly, a fatal condition.<\/p>\n
They named her Skye, knowing she would only live briefly.<\/p>\n
Skye lived for just three hours, a time her parents cherished deeply.<\/p>\n
After her passing, Millie noticed that people stopped acknowledging Skye\u2019s existence, which made her feel isolated.<\/p>\n
One day, another parent joked that Millie was \u201clucky not to have twins,\u201d unaware of her loss.<\/p>\n
That painful moment inspired Millie to create the purple butterfly sticker<\/strong>\u2014a gentle symbol placed on incubators to indicate the loss of one or more babies in a set of multiples.<\/p>\n The butterfly, in purple to be gender-neutral, now helps other grieving families feel seen and understood.<\/p>\n Millie\u2019s idea has since grown into the\u00a0Skye High Foundation<\/em>, spreading compassion and awareness across hospitals worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Millie Smith and Lewis Cann were thrilled to learn they were expecting twins. But joy turned to heartbreak when doctors discovered that one baby had anencephaly, a fatal condition. They named her Skye, knowing she would only live briefly. Skye lived for just three hours, a time her parents cherished deeply. After her passing, Millie…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4660,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions\/4660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}