Posted in Our Heavenly Angels, Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, Rocky Roads Ahead, tagged angel crafts, angels, books about pregnancy loss, butterfly release, grieving families, memory walk, October 15th, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness, releasing balloons, stillbirth, tanner, umbilical cord on October 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
October 11th, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Memory Walks took place across the nation, recognizing the babies who left this earth too soon. Bereaved families came together to pay tribute by walking, lighting candles, or releasing balloons or butterflies. October 15th being the actual day.
Heartstrings located in the Piedmont Triad Area of North Carolina had their [...]
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Posted in Angelversaries, Comforting Memory Gardens, Our Heavenly Angels, Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, Rocky Roads Ahead, tagged angels, angelversary, balloons, Birthday, Citalopram, d&c, deceased child, expected due date, heaven, memory gardens, Parents of Angels, pregnancy loss, remembrance, stillbirth, Stillborn, tanner, traditions on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The angelversary date has no rules. For us it is the day Tanner’s stillborn body laid in my arms (also my husband’s birthday), for my girlfriend it was the day of her D&C, for another, her child’s expected due date.
Once the month of August hits, my anxiety starts building. September 28th is Tanner’s angelversaryand for years [...]
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Posted in Our Heavenly Angels, Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, Rocky Roads Ahead, tagged angels, church, heaven, stillbirth, Stillborn, tanner on August 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our precious Tanner was stillborn and several weeks prior another Tanner was born healthy and safe. After almost 5 years it still hurts me to see this little boy in church. This Tanner is almost the exact age of my angel Tanner.
My husband is Methodist and I am Catholic so we are members of 2 [...]
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Posted in Our Heavenly Angels, Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, Rocky Roads Ahead, tagged Babies Die, death, Everything happens for a reason, God, heaven, Our Heavenly Angels, stillbirth, Stillborn, tanner on July 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I used to think everything happened for a reason before my son was stillborn. I am guilty of uttering those insensitive words, “Everything happens for a reason”. I remember them rolling off my tongue to my uncle whose new grand baby was born with a terminal illness.
This phrase “Everything happens for a reason” is now [...]
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Posted in Our Heavenly Angels, Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, Rocky Roads Ahead, tagged angels, Anxiety & Panic Disorders, Citalopram, cognitive behavior therapy, Lexapro, Stillborn, tanner on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My dizziness has subsided and I am able to remember and multi-task again because of Lexapro. I told my doctor that I wasn’t crazy about paying 70 dollars a month (there is no generic substitue) so he prescribed Citalopram. This is about 9 dollars and gentler on the pocket book. He did suggest that it [...]
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Posted in Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, Rocky Roads Ahead, tagged adhd, generalized anxiety disorder, Lexapro, panic, Stillborn, tanner, xanex on April 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve had a visit to our family doctor since my last post of concerns with dizziness and lack of concentration and the diagnosis was Generalized Anxiety Disorder. “A Disorder” is definitely what I have been feeling for quite some time. The doctor also suggested a touch of ADHD. Much of the time I am in [...]
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Posted in Huh?!, Our Heavenly Angels, Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, Rocky Roads Ahead, tagged bereaved parents, comfort a friend, death, God, heaven, pregnancy and infant loss, stillborn baby, tanner on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Your baby is in a better place. It was God’s will. Heaven has another angel. You are still young, you can have another. There was probably something wrong with it, you wouldn’t want a handicap child. Everything happens for a reason.
The last statement is a big one many bereaved parents of pregnancy and infant loss [...]
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Suggestions to help you, your spouse and your heart on this journey many couples face dealing with infertility.
Charmaine Purdum
Guilford County Coalition on Infant Mortality Coordinator
1203 Maple Street 3rd Floor
Greensboro, NC 27405
Phone: 336-641-6775 Fax: 336-641-6971
“Creating Futures, One Baby At A Time”
Infertility Survival Tips
Be as informed as possible during your journey with infertility. Doctors don’t always have [...]
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Posted in Rocky Roads Ahead, tagged Catholic, divorce, God, helped our marriage, love, Retrouvaille, Stillborn, tanner, weekend retreat on March 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
We have completed the entire program offered by Retrouvaille, which saved our marriage from a horrible divorce.
However, the following 2 weeks after our intense weekend retreat was an absolute nightmare. I had written a post the night we returned from the retreat with high hopes in salvaging our marriage. I was on a marriage high that Sunday [...]
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Posted in Our Heavenly Angels, Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, Rocky Roads Ahead, tagged Baby Loss, bereaved friend, comfort a friend, forever loved, grieving girlfriend, journaling, loss of baby, memorials, Memories, Poems, pregnancy loss, Scrapbooking, Stillborn, Support groups, tanner on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If your girlfriend baby’s has died as an infant or early in her pregnancy she needs your support more than ever. These tragic losses not only affect her emotionally, but physically. Most likely her baby was greatly loved even before conception and the following pain creates an overwhelming amount of grief.
In the weeks after the loss [...]
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