A Loss

Maryn in her Ivy's diaper!

I can't even express to you how the loss of Garrett and Rosie has impacted my heart and mind over the last 2 weeks. Just incredibly sad...and I didn't even know Garrett but for the one time she was in my living room and the hand-full of times I chatted briefly with her either standing out on my driveway or via email. I feel like I have been in one of those "praying-without-ceasing" times for her husband, Mike, and 3-year old daughter, Ivy.

See last year when still pregnant I expressed to my mom that I wanted to do cloth diapers for environmental and money-saving reasons. My mom decided to gift me initially with 8 weeks of a local cloth diaper service just as her mom did for her back in the day. The 8 weeks has now turned into...5 months and counting! Ivy's Diaper Service is the ONLY cloth diaper service in Charlotte...you would think there would be more. Garrett started this awesome, green biz a few years back. She visits each new customer and walks them through all the ins and outs of her cloth diapers, even providing dolls to practice on. Actually, Garrett was not only the owner of the company, but the sole worker...washing and delivering all her diapers each week to the hundred or so customers that she had.

It was a Thursday morning, I put out my bag of dirty diapers that morning knowing that Garrett (aka the diaper fairy) would be by to exchange my dirties for cleans any minute. She did. Later that day I saw on Ivy's Facebook page that Garrett (9 months pregnant) was in a terrible accident and whoever posted the status asked for prayers. I prayed. Saturday I checked back into the Ivy's Diaper facebook page and read that Garrett and Rosie (their daughter) had passed.

Rosie was delivered via C-section after the accident and survived a day later, but died in her daddy's arms. She wasn't able to survive due to the lack of oxygen she had at the time of the accident. Garrett only survived 10 hours after the accident...never waking up but stayed long enough for her family to reach her and say goodbye. A dump truck had crossed the yellow line and hit Garrett head on...a tragic and terrible moment.

What a tragedy...a loss...an emptiness for Mike and Ivy (their 3 year old). My heart continues to break for them both. Garrett was a mom to the many babies she diapered each week! Thank you, Garrett, for your amazing business and love for all things baby!