Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, a day we can remember those babies gone from our life too soon. Please light a candle in your time zone at 7:00PM to remember all babies who were lost before they got a chance to live.

If you are in the Monroe, GA area, please join us at the Historic Courthouse tonight as we gather to pay tribute to our little ones.

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Historic Courthouse
Monroe, GA
7:00PM

*Rain or Shine!*

October 15th Video

The Zoe Foundation Charity

I had the pleasure of speaking with an incredible mother the end of last week. Out of the grief of losing her daughter, Zoe, she formed The Zoe Foundation Charity which will be providing funeral expenses to families who lose babies at or before birth. They are still in the beginning stages of developing their website, but they do have their first fundraiser planned for this coming Friday night in Savannah! If you are in the area and would like to participate, please contact them directly.

Zoe Foundation Charity

Pregnancy Loss Remembrance Day Service

photo by natalicek

The public is invited to remember all babies
lost at or before birth on

Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Remembrance Day
Candlelighting Service

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Historic Courthouse Square
Monroe, GA

Remembering Your Baby
www.rememberingyourbaby.org
770.207.1443

3rd Annual PILD/Oct 15th Service Planned!

As you may or may not know, our family moved from Mississippi back home to Georgia earlier this year. Because of that, the service I am planning is in Monroe GA. I would love to have the service in Hernando continue but need some volunteers to make that happen! If you are in the Hernando/Memphis, TN area and can help with the service there, please contact me ASAP!

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Day/Oct 15th
Thursday, October 15, 2009
7:00 PM
Historic Courthouse Square
Monroe, GA

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Jonathan, You Left Too Soon

I recently received this as a freebie in my email today. I have downloaded it for myself and skimmed through it. I normally do not post or send you all to a link that I have not fully researched, but being that there is a time constraint on this download, I wanted to go ahead and share it. Please keep in mind I have not read it in its entirety! That being said, this is the account of a true story written by the parents of Jonathan, a three-year-old who fell ill very quickly and eventually died.

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The Agony of Mother’s Day

There are a few days out of the year that I would rather stay in bed all day. Today is one such day. Every year I let it sneak up on me. It is not a day I like to be around other people. I prefer to spend it with my immediate family only. I don’t really even want to spend it with my own mom and mother-in-law though I know that seems very unfair to them. I have other living children so I cannot ignore it completely. But something inside of me does not want to participate in the rituals our society has placed on Mother’s Day. I do not want to go to church and be around all the other moms who have all their children with them. I despise sitting through a baby dedication on Mother’s Day. I hate the dreaded question, ‘How many kids do you have?’

Last night I actually received some validation in how I felt. A person who just barely met me actually mentioned how hard this day must be for me and other women like me. Never have I even had a friend or family member vocalize to me how hard Mother’s Day must be for moms without their babies. It gave me comfort knowing someone else out there thought about the impact of this day on us.

My thought on Mother’s Day is just like any other holiday we have to face throughout the year without our babies. Do what you want to do. If you have no desire to be around other moms, don’t. If you can’t handle sitting through baby dedication at your church, don’t go. If you want to spend the day with your family, other children if you have them, or another bereaved mom, just do it and don’t worry about what other people think. Do what is right for you.

It took me several years (like four or five!) to be comfortable going to church on Mother’s Day. I can now sit through a baby dedication and I am generally fine with it. This year, however, we do not have a church home since we have recently moved. I do not want to spend the day around strangers so I am choosing to not go to church today. We are spending the day, just the four of us, at a park, cooking out and being together. It is a far cry from what most people will be doing today. But it is what I want to do and it is what is right for my family. Go do what is right for you.