{"id":534,"date":"2024-07-05T18:21:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendflare.co\/?p=534"},"modified":"2024-07-05T18:21:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:21:45","slug":"mourning-mom-sells-stillborn-babys-crib-for-2-a-week-later-buyer-returns-it-transformed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendflare.co\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Mourning mom sells stillborn baby\u2019s crib for $2: A week later, buyer returns it transformed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reader-unique-id=\"20\"><strong data-reader-unique-id=\"21\"><em data-reader-unique-id=\"22\">After this mourning mom sold her dead son\u2019s crib at a yard sale, she was surprised when the buyer returned it a week later.<\/em><\/strong>Anticipating the arrival of a baby brings immense joy. Imagining the happiness that comes with welcoming a new bundle of joy fills soon-to-be parents with excitement.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"26\">A woman named Valerie Watts was looking forward to seeing her baby\u2019s face, but her happiness and heart were crushed when she gave birth to a stillborn baby boy.She had a smooth pregnancy until suddenly things took a turn.\u201cAll week, I knew,\u201d Watts reflected. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t moving as much. I was very nervous.\u201dBaby Noah\u2019s umbilical cord got pinched in the womb, causing his life to end before it began.Watts was still feeling very sad. Even though her baby didn\u2019t survive.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"26\">\u00a0she couldn\u2019t bring herself to get rid of the crib she had purchased for him. Having it in her home served as a constant reminder of the heartbreaking event.Gerald Kumpula remembered that she seemed unsure.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"26\">He thought she might not want to sell it, but she did in the end.Kumpula resided a short distance away and had a workshop on the edge of Cokato. Upon seeing the crib at the Watts family\u2019s garage sale, he wanted to purchase it even though it wasn\u2019t for sale.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"26\">When he asked me if I was selling that, that he made benches, I hesitated,\u201d Watts admitted.At that time, Kumpulas was not familiar with the story of that crib.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"26\">His wife was there looking through my garage sale \u2014 at some of the baby clothes \u2014 and asked how old my son was since I don\u2019t use the crib anymore,<\/p>\n<figure data-reader-unique-id=\"29\">\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"30\">\n<div class=\"iframe-wrapper extendsBeyondTextColumn\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stillborn baby's transformed crib helps mother heal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JThvSUFFFUY?feature=oembed\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"790\" data-origheight=\"444\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-reader-unique-id=\"31\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>After this mourning mom sold her dead son\u2019s crib at a yard sale, she was surprised when the buyer returned it a week later.Anticipating the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/trendflare.co\/?p=534\" title=\"Mourning mom sells stillborn baby\u2019s crib for $2: A week later, buyer returns it transformed\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendflare.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendflare.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendflare.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendflare.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendflare.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trendflare.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/trendflare.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendflare.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendflare.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendflare.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendflare.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}