Series: 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.”
Read MoreCelebrating All Siblings, Here and Gone Too Soon
So strange to not know whether I am missing a sister or a brother.
Read MoreThis Kettering Family Shares How 500-plus Teddy Bears Have Filled Empty Hands When Hearts are Breaking
This couple doesn’t want any other mother to leave the hospital with empty hands.
Read MoreA Precious Gift for Grieving Parents
The year 2018 was a good year for Ashley Hale. She was making the most of her last year of high school in a Boston suburb. She was a leader on a competitive cheerleading team and was preparing to attend the University of Virginia the following fall…
Read MoreThe Story of Lincoln Matthew Herman and His Parents
The Hermans, in honor of their baby boy, and because of generous fundraising, purchased and donated a Caring Cradle to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. Lincoln’s parents bravely gave from their pain and their heart. The Hermans invite you to read the story of their son Lincoln, and how they first lost him to…
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