One stitch at a time, Virginia Cortes tries to bring comfort to parents who have lost a baby weeks after birth.

She takes donated wedding gowns and sews them into "angel gowns" parents can use to lay their child to rest.

“There’s no first grade, there’s no graduations, there’s no wedding, so all their dreams are shattered,” she said.

Virginia and her husband, Florida Rep. Bob Cortes, know what that’s like. They lost their son, Rob Jr., when he was 5 years old. They have memories of him — and a birth certificate.

Right now, parents who lose fetuses four months and older can get a stillborn birth certificate. Parents with fetuses that miscarry younger than that don't have that option.

Cortes, a Republican state representative from Altamonte Springs, is proposing a new Florida law to change that.

“Many parents actually go out and spend $40, $50 on a fake certificate they have to buy on the internet. With this, they won’t have to do that,” Bob Cortes said.

House Bill 101, which creates the "Grieving Families Act," would allow parents who lose fetuses before 20 weeks to request a "certificate of nonviable birth."

“Many times the parents walk out of that hospital empty-handed. This gives them the opportunity they can memorialize their child by means of a certificate,” Bob Cortes said.

While Bob Cortes pushes the proposed law, his wife will continue to comfort families.

“[The moms] say they can’t believe their bodies betrayed them, and we’re just trying to bring healing,” Virginia Cortes said.