15 October – Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

Beautiful picture with curtesy of Carly Marie:
http://carlymarieprojectheal.com/

Today is the 15 October and this means ‘Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day‘. The Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Movement began in the United States on October 25, 1988, when then-American President Ronald Reagan designated the month of October 1988 as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.

It is also with great pleasure that I would like to announce that I have narrowed down the topic of my forthcoming GRIEF BOOK: Grieving Parents
Keep looking out for news on it’s publication date in 2014!

This is  a great day to remember all the parents who have lost their babies during pregnancy, neonatal death or during infancy. Remember that grieving a child is a life-long endeavour. Remember that parents will always remember their child in whatever way or form is right for them. Remember that they won’t ‘get over it’.

If you want to know how you can help a grieving parent or understand what they might be going through, here are some good articles to read:  Wishes of an Angel’s Mum and Dad

• Responding to Grief
• Stages of Grief
• Grief is Personal
• Unrecognizable to Myself
• Why Not Just Cry
• How To Go On
• Looking Good doesn’t have to mean Feeling Good
• The Lie of Strength
• Being With a Grieving Parent
• When Does Grief Stop?
• My Child Died – A Conversation Stopper

If you want to help others understand what you are going through, read and share some of those articles with them:

• Wishes of an Angel’s Mum and Dad
• A Lonely Path to Walk
• That Question: How Many Children Do You Have?
• How Are You?
• How Are You? Part 2
• At Least You’ve Got One (comparing a loss with the life of another child)

Related articles of my fellow bloggers and websites:

• Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day Australia (http://15october.com.au/)
• Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day (allwhiteeverything820.wordpress.com)
• Motherlode Blog: On National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, a Mother with a Candle to Light (parenting.blogs.nytimes.com)
• Count the Kicks! {Pregnancy and Infant Loss} (katbiggie.com)
• Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day (confessionsofaninfertile.wordpress.com)
• I Hate Thanksgiving (crowdfundingamiracle.wordpress.com)
• Pregnancy, infant loss ceremony planned (cjonline.com)
• Somewhere Over the Rainbow LLC: “Because they Lived..” a Call for Story Submissions on Pregnancy and Infant Loss (prweb.com)
• October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month (myhopejar.com)