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Ashley Opliger is the President and Executive Director of Bridget’s Cradles 501c3 nonprofit organization based in Wichita, Kansas. Her daughter, Bridget Faith, was stillborn at 24 weeks gestation in 2014. Ashley’s mother had knit a small cradle for Bridget that allowed their family to hold her in a special way on the day she was born. After realizing there was a need for hospitals and bereaved families to have a dignified, functional way to hold tiny babies born into Heaven in the second trimester, Ashley left her career as a Speech-Language Pathologist and started the ministry in her daughter’s empty nursery.  

Under Ashley’s leadership, Bridget’s Cradles has grown in five years from first donating cradles to their local hospital to now serving over 1,025 hospitals in all 50 states. From their own headquarters space, Bridget’s Cradles now comforts over 26,000 bereaved families each year. 

Ashley is married to Matt and they have three children: Bridget (in Heaven), Branton, and a baby boy on the way. She is a fully-devoted follower of Christ who desires for women to find faith to embrace a beautiful broken life.

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