Inside the zip-lock bag is Julian's receiving blanket that my husband brought back to my hospital room on the night the boys were born. The blanket was with Julian in the hospital and it smelled like him. I placed it in the zip-lock bag on the night he died in the hopes that it would maintain his scent for as long as possible. And it did. I took that blanket out of the zip-lock bag for the briefest of moments multiple times a day and would inhale his sweet scent, only to return it to the bag so it wouldn't loose that precious scent. Nine months later, the smell is not the same, but I still take the blanket out of the bag and hold it close. The padded rectangle was Julian's IV board in the NICU - it also smelled like my baby for a long time, now it smells of his memory box.
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