SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

Photographs help Katy and Brian Herman of Rocklin keep the memory of their baby boy alive. The couple cherishes in-delivery room images, captured of their son Wesley Dean Herman, who was stillborn, April 11, 2021.

“It's just, it's very peaceful looking to me,” Katy Herman said as she looked at a framed photo of Wesley, taken the day she gave birth to him. “This was right before we left him. We each got our turn to say goodbye.”

A brother. A nephew. A grandchild. A son. Wesley will always be all of those things, even though he couldn't go home from the hospital with his family.

“It shouldn't be like that, you know. Him in my arms, he was heavy. The weight was heavy. I still feel him in my arms,” said Herman. “It was hard. Really hard.”

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