Welcome to Plathville star Lydia Plath is honoring her first child with a shadow box filled with mementos, and the reveal has fans emotional. The 22-year-old shared footage of herself crafting the tribute on Instagram on October 31. Inside the glass frame: handwritten letters, beads, stickers, knit baby booties, a wooden cross, and her positive pregnancy test, all memories of the baby she lost to miscarriage earlier this month.
Lydia and her husband, Zac Wyse, announced the pregnancy loss earlier this month. Since then, Lydia has been candid about the physical toll, revealing she was hospitalized with heavy bleeding and needed an emergency D&C and blood transfusion. In her post, she wrote,“There’s no words for the pain as we grieve the loss of our little angel,”adding that making the box was“hard but really healing.”Lydia and Zac married in February 2025.
Her openness is giving pregnancy loss a much-needed spotlight, and the shadow box idea might inspire others to create their own tributes. Whether it’s a box, a journal, or a single kept letter, honoring someone you carried matters. What’s one keepsake you’d put in a shadow box of your own? Tell us in the comments.
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