Families grieving the loss of unborn or newborn babies were supported with a special event in Pittsburgh on Sunday.
Allegheny Health Network and Olivia’s Angels Bereavement host a butterfly release every year to help grieving parents.
Families gathered in the Winter Garden Room at West Penn Hospital to support each other.
Memorial poems were read before they went out to release the butterflies in memory of the lost children.
More than twenty local families took part in the liberation this year.
Some families made art and bags were also handed out.
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