Mom Says Final Goodbye to Her Dying Father from Her Son's Room, Realizing After the Moment Was Captured By Her Baby Monitor

"Revisiting the video is hard, but healing," Paula Satariano Barrow tells PEOPLE of her final conversation with her father being captured on her baby monitor

NEED TO KNOW

• Paula Satariano Barrow was prepared to say goodbye to her father as his health declined
• What she didn’t know was that their final conversation had been captured on video, thanks to her son’s baby monitor
• “It breaks me. I’m ugly crying every time, but I’m smiling too,” Barrow tells PEOPLE of revisiting the footage after her father’s death

One mom is expressing gratitude after her final conversation with her father was recorded in a special way.

In December, Paula Satariano Barrow received a message from her father's hospice nurse, informing her that his health was taking a turn for the worse, and he only had days left to live. Her father had previously been diagnosed with cancer.

Barrow made plans to visit her dad the next day, but later that evening, she decided to reach out to him sooner.

"While putting her son to bed, she thought, 'Let’s call him and say goodnight,' " a spokesperson for baby monitor company Nanit exclusively tells PEOPLE. "Her mom picked up and put it on speaker for him, and even though his voice was soft and faint, Paula could hear his smile."

Her son told his smiling grandfather a "silly story" over the phone before telling him goodnight.

Barrow's father died hours later. He was 65.

"Only afterward did she realize the moment had been captured by her Nanit baby monitor in her son’s room," Nanit tells PEOPLE. "What felt like a small, ordinary bedtime call turned into a memory she will cherish forever."

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"Revisiting the video is hard, but healing," Barrow exclusively tells PEOPLE on Tuesday, Feb. 10. "I’m grateful I got to say goodbye, and even more grateful that the moment is captured forever."

Barrow says hearing her father's "quiet voice" greet her soon still "breaks me."

"I’m ugly crying every time, but I’m smiling too," she says. "I hear his love in that moment, and I instinctively want to hug my phone like it could reach him."

Reflecting on the baby monitor capturing their final conversation, Barrow describes it as "grief and love at the same time."

"Having it preserved is a gift I never could have imagined. I’m grateful that Nanit happened to capture it," she says.

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