South Hills family collects diapers to honor their son Max

A South Hills couple is turning an unimaginable loss into a mission to help other families, one diaper at a time.Nikki and Anthony Costulas were preparing to welcome their fourth child, Max, buying diapers and getting ready for life with a new baby. But Max never made it home.After losing their son, the family found themselves with a nursery full of diapers and a painful reminder of the future they had imagined.

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Anthony Costulas decided to put those diapers to good use."When we lost Max and we started thinking those diapers were sitting up there and making me very angry, it was just a bad reminder," he said. "I was like, 'What can I do with these diapers?' and 'Is there anything we can do to put them to good use?'"That question sparked Max's Diapers, a family effort to collect diapers for babies and families who need them.

Today, the family's garage is packed with diaper boxes of every brand and size. There's not even room for a car.Anthony Costulas has taken the effort beyond collecting