Harper Reign’s Funeral & Memorial Costs

I was only 33 weeks pregnant with our first baby girl when a young girl ran a stop sign and hit my car at 50 mph right on the drivers side my stomach and head slammed into the steering wheel. I remember I got out and was screaming “my baby! my baby!” I looked down and my stomach went from looking like a cute little basketball to a completely misshaped hotdog! As if my baby girl had shifted herself all the way to the right, so naturally as I was screaming and panicking in shock yelling for anyone to help, I looked up and saw people running in my direction from everywhere yelling “Oh my gosh! She’s pregnant someone call for help!” and “Oh my gosh! Are you okay, that just shook our entire house!” On the way to the hospital, I was having contractions and in panic just wanting to know if my baby was alive if she was okay. Thank God, it turned out she was fine, but I was in fact having labor contractions as a direct result from the car accident. Thankfully, the hospital was able to slow down my labor and sent us back home to keep growing baby Harper. Almost a week later after enduring tolerable contractions throughout the entire week, my fiancé Bryce and I were at our baby shower for baby Harper when out of no where my contractions suddenly became extremely painful very quickly, so we left our baby shower and went directly to the hospital again...only to hear that this time there was no stopping my labor as I was already dilated to 4cm! Turns out we were having a birthday party that day, aka, Harper Reign was coming into the world!! This being only July 12th, 2020, 6 week’s early, we had our concerns for her health. After 26 hours of labor, she came naturally 17.5 inches and 4 little pounds, and shockingly didn’t need any help from any machine (no breathing machines, feeding tubes, etc); she was strong! She was without a doubt already our little fighter! She spent the next 9 days in the NICU, and was sent home on July 21st, 2020 at 17.5 inches and 3lbs 10oz. She was doing great! Shocking everyone with her strength to fight and her will to live! We saw her pediatrician that next day and was still doing well! She was eating great and gaining weight on just breast milk she latched on perfectly! She was sleeping 3-3.5hours a night and had lungs of an air horn lol the hospital even nicknamed her “Spark Plug” “small but mighty”. She saw her pediatrician again July 30th and she had gained 5 ounces in one week! He was just so happy with her milestones! It wasn’t until 2 days later that everyone’s worst nightmare came true, we would never know that July 31st would be the last night we’d ever get to see her blink her eyes or smile again. After bathing her feeding her swaddling her and putting her back to sleep that night (technically the early morning of August 1st), my poor husband went to check on her before he left for work a few hours later and kiss her goodbye and was stopped in his tracks when he found her not responding and not breathing... she had passed away in her sleep... After the police and then EMS trying to revive her, with no luck, our worst nightmare came true. God had truly taken her from us way too soon! Why? We’ll NEVER understand or have any answers for. All we know is that 20 days with her was not enough and completely unfair... so unexpected and completely heart breaking... in moments our lives went from what should have been the best moments in our lives to the absolute worst moment of our lives, our hearts were shattered and forever scarred... we’ve been taking each moment as it comes, but it’s been extremely overwhelming trying to figure out all the things you have to do after someone passes away, not to mention how expensive and devastating it is as well. Anything, anyone can help us with, as this was the last thing we ever imagined having to plan for right now would be so greatly appreciated. We’re having the worst time of our lives right now. Anything over the asking amount will be used for legal fees for us to hire an attorney as we suspect negligence has been done by the hospital, an area dedicated to Harper in memory of her, eventually we’d love to start a non-profit for her as well titled The Harper Foundation...thank you so much in advance.