Valerie Watts was overjoyed when she found out she was pregnant with a baby boy, and as the months of her pregnancy wore on, she named him Noah. All was going well until the week before Valerie went into labor, and then things took a devastating turn…

Valerie already had Noah’s room, crib, and baby clothes all set up when she realized something was wrong.

“All week I knew, he wasn’t moving as much. I was very nervous,” she said.

Sadly, Noah’s umbilical cord had become pinched in the womb, and he was stillborn. Valerie was too devastated to part with the items she had picked out for her son, especially his crib, which she was particularly attached to. For awhile, she left his room totally as it was until she could bring herself to go back in there and figure out what to do with everything.

Finally, Valerie summoned the strength to pack up the baby toys, clothes and crib and sell them at a garage sale. Gerald Kumpula has a workshop in his garage where he enjoys converting headboards and footboards into benches, so he decided to check out the garage sale with his wife to look for materials. They ended up buying the crib, and it was only on the ride home that Gerald’s wife told him about the loss of Valerie’s child.

Gerald was devastated and shocked, as he figured that Valerie’s children had simply outgrown the crib, so he decided to come up with an amazing way to honor Noah’s memory.

One week later, Gerald returned to Valerie’s house with a gift for her in his car. She burst into tears when she saw that he had turned Noah’s crib into a little bench that could serve as a memorial to him!

“It’s amazing, and there’s good people out there,” Valerie said. “There’s proof.”

Now whenever Valerie looks at this bench, she is reminded that she has a little angel watching over her in heaven! Find out more about this in the video below, and SHARE this story so your friends and family can see this as well!