Valerie Watts experienced something no parent should experience when she lost her baby forever.
While Valerie was nine months pregnant and had a few days left before giving birth, she received the tragic news that the baby in her womb had d!ed.
No words could fully describe the woman’s sadness and grief. She was left with a children’s room with a crib, toys, and baby clothes – but no baby.
It took Valerie a while, but eventually she decided to sell the crib at a garage sale – but she might never expect what happened after the crib was sold.
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“I knew it all week. He hardly moved. I was very stressed”, Valerie Watts said when she talked about the week before her son, Noah, became stillb0rn.
After the traumatic experience of giving birth to a stillborn baby, Valerie couldn’t bring herself to sell Noah’s things or touch the baby room she had made for him. The woman was so broke that she left the room as it was for a year.
But a year later, she had enough strength to organize a garage sale and sell Noah’s belongings. Though it was a difficult decision, she forced herself to sell several items – especially the crib, to which she was most attached. She was sure it would be the last thing anyone would want to buy.
Valerie was surprised that an older man named Gerald was interested in the crib.
Gerald restores old furniture in his spare time and he thought he could use a crib. He insisted on buying the crib, but sensed that Valerie wasn’t sure she wanted to sell it.
“She hesitated, I knew maybe she didn’t want to sell it. But she sold it anyway..”, Gerald said.
Gerald was unaware of the real reason behind the garage sale. He saw that Valerie was selling baby clothes and just assumed that her child had grown up and that there were things she no longer needed.
Gerald little knew that his wife, who was also at the garage sale, had spoken to Valerie beforehand. She asked Valerie how old her child was and Valerie told her that her son had passed away.
Gerald and his wife put the crib in the car and then went back home. On their way home, his wife told him Valerie’s story. The two understood what the crib meant to Valerie and why she was hesitant to sell it to them. They decided they needed to return the crib to her.
But Gerald thought it would hurt Valerie if he returned the cradle to her in its entirety – in cradle form, so he decided to turn it into a beautiful chair as a memorial to Noah.
A week later, Gerald returned to Valerie’s house with a gift. The unused crib has now become a beautiful chair that will be in her home and will be a memory for Noah.
Valerie was moved by the amazing gesture of this man she does not know at all.
“It’s amazing, and there are good people out there, that’s the proof”, she said.
