Lessons We’ve Learned Throughout Our Journey
How to Support a Loved One Through Loss
People often feel lost on what they can do when someone loses a baby. After speaking to some fellow loss mothers, here is a list of ways you can support your loved one.
For the Parent Who is Miscarrying
Here is my experience with miscarriage and the things I would want to know.
Helping a Sibling Grieve
There is not a lot of information out there on how to help an older sibling grieve the loss of their baby brother or sister. Here are the things I’ve learned helping our then six-year-old.
For the Parent Delivering a Stillborn Baby
Nothing can fully prepare you for a stillbirth, but here are the things I learned or wish I could have been prepared for before delivering.
Phrases to Avoid When Someone is Experiencing a Loss
When people are trying to be supportive in loss, often in the spirit of saying SOMETHING, they can say the wrong things. Here is a list of common adages people use surround pregnancy and child loss as well as some helpful new phrases to replace them.
Companies and Partners We Trust
Molly Bears
Molly Bears exists to create a positive and comforting impact for families enduring any form of infant loss by creating weighted teddy bears to match the same weight as the family’s infant.
Birth Injury Center
The Birth Injury Center is an advocacy center whose mission it is to assist anyone who has been affected by a birth injury. Their website contains a compilation of information surrounding birth injuries. The web link below is their information on intrauterine fetal demise. They hope the knowledge they provide can empower families that have been affected.
Stillborn Still Loved
The Stillborn Still Loved Foundation is dedicated to spreading awareness and making changes when it comes to Pregnancy and Infant Loss. Their goal is to provide education, resources, complimentary grief programs, bereavement boxes and more.
Little Teardrop Company
Joseph, the baby of the founders of Little Tear Drop Co, was born still in June 2021. They now share their experiences to help you know that you are not alone, and they create simple products that help you simply and lovingly remember your little one. They sell stickers, custom ornaments, cards, keychains, and more. They are also working on a project to provide burial clothes for families experiencing infant loss.
Roots of Sequoyah
Roots of Sequoyah are a full time RV family working from home in the name of their late son. Their goal is to provide quality homemade, family focused crafts and natural products. There are also working to be able to supply bereavement care packages to birth places and families of loss. They have started small with the hope to expand as they go.
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (NILMDTS) is an amazing company that provides a photographer in order to supply remembrance portraits to parents experiencing the death of a baby. All they ask for in return is a donation from those able to give. Our photographs form Calvin’s birth are one of our greatest treasures. They can be seen on the Calvin’s Gallery page of our website.
Tree of Hope Creations
Tree of Hope Creations make commemoratives and jewelry out of breast milk, cremains, other precious inclusions to help commemorate journeys.
Books That Helped Us Understand
Loved Baby
by Sarah Philpott`
A devotional book on how to cope, mourn, and heal after losing a baby.
Our Heaven Baby
by Leah Vis
A book on miscarriage and the hope of Heaven.
Courageously Expecting
by Jenny Albers
A devotional book on how to cope, mourn, and heal after losing a baby.