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,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After her passing, Millie noticed that people stopped acknowledging Skye\u2019s existence, which made her feel isolated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One day, another parent joked that Millie was \u201clucky not to have twins,\u201d unaware of her loss. That painful moment inspired Millie to <\/p>\n\n\n\n
create the\u00a0purple 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\n\n\n The butterfly, in purple to be gender-neutral, now helps other grieving families feel seen and understood. <\/p>\n\n\n\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":2,"featured_media":13979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13980,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions\/13980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}