Posts by Isabelle
Vol 1, Iss 2: Lorena’s Story
The story of Lorena Tapia and the loss of her beautiful baby girl Loreal to stillbirth, while heartbreaking, reveals the power of the love of a mother and how she discovered and shared Caring Cradles to not one, but two hospitals. Click here to read the full story
Read MoreAWHONN National Nurses Educational Organization
Empower and support nurses caring for women, newborns, and their families through research, education, and advocacy.
Read MoreCount the Kicks
Count the Kicks focuses on movements, and especially kicks, to help mothers through moments of concern.
Read MoreCelebration Time: 600 Instagram Followers
We just reached 600 subscribers on Instagram! “Thank you so very much!” Caring Cradle is writing to you with a full heart. For some people, that number may seem hardly worth mentioning. However, we treasure every single one of you. 600 followers of the Caring Cradle feel like 600 votes of support, and we…
Read MoreSeries: Finding Ways to Support Yourself Through Your Healing Journey: Gathering
(2 of 10) Suffering is universal. Suffering almost always causes an automatic reaction of withdrawing into ourselves. We know that being alone for a time can give us a personal level of healing, a moment in time to regroup. We need that time of deep grieving as it is part of the journey and acknowledges…
Read MoreSeries: Finding Ways to Support Yourself Through Your Healing Journey: Hobbies
(1 of 10) Finding the Hobby You Weren’t Expecting : How to be Gentle With Yourself in Something New Over the next two weeks, we will talk about activities we can pursue that are not difficult, but could definitely improve our overall mental and emotional wellbeing. We would all agree that losing a baby…
Read MoreCaring Cradles Give Extra Time – What That Means to Familes
As you know, the Caring Cradle is a device that cools the body of a baby immediately following stillbirth. The facts are that the changes a baby’s body goes through may be difficult to view or manage. The Caring Cradle can slow those changes down which then slows the need to separate the family and…
Read MoreThe Legacy of Lincoln Herman – Soin Medical Center in Dayton Ohio
Again and again, the legacy of these babies shows us what compassion-in-action looks like. Their families honor their memories by giving in advance to other families who are unaware that stillbirth will become part of their future. We all would love to stop stillbirth and infant death. But the sad truth is we can not.…
Read MoreFinding Your Glimmer of Light
by Isabelle Baker, Caring Cradle Working for Caring Cradle has been a personal privilege for me as I am a Rainbow Baby and my mother never recovered from the stillbirth of her first child. I will write more about that later, but because of how my mother was NOT cared for, because there was no…
Read MoreAugusta County couple honors stillborn daughter by raising money to donate Caring Cradles to area hospitals
“An Augusta County couple continues to grieve after they lost their stillborn daughter, Alivia. Laura Shifflett and her fiancé Dakota Martin were able to spend 22.5 hours with their daughter, thanks to a cooling device called a Caring Cradle. It has a cooling mattress pad, which allows families to spend more time with their stillborn baby.”
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