Early Pregnancy Loss
The Christopher Tree
By Cathi Lammert, Share’s Former Executive Director 1992-2013 On the first anniversary of our son Christopher’s death, December 4, we gathered with loving members of both sides of our families at our church for a Mass in honor of Christopher. After church, we adjourned to our home for a delicious brunch that everyone helped to…
Read MoreAwareness Helps Spread Love and Support
By: Marie Kriedman October is a bustling time of year for our family. We juggle birthdays, anniversaries, swim lessons, fall sports, a new school routine, homework, pumpkin carving, Halloween fun, and so much more. After I experienced a miscarriage in August 2020, I learned that October is also Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month. Every…
Read MorePregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness: Supporting the Fertility Community
By: Rosie Buckley Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day falls each year on October 15th. On this day, people come together to remember babies who have passed during pregnancy or shortly after and acknowledge their grief. People going through fertility treatments like IVF and IUI often experience a range of feelings, like grief and disappointment,…
Read MoreHiking for Healing
By: Rose Carlson Now that spring has arrived, you may be looking for things to do outdoors. Give hiking a try if you are looking for a physical outlet to help take your mind away from grief for a bit. On a recent hiking trip, I was enjoying the peace and quiet, and I realized…
Read MoreFinding Peace in the New Year
By: Rose Carlson The holidays are over, and you may be breathing a huge sigh of relief that you made it through those stressful days. Hopefully, they weren’t as bad as you might have imagined they would be. Now it is a new year, a fresh start, and you may be dreading that as well.…
Read MoreTraditions Always Include the Baby
By: Marie Kriedman Our family has many holiday traditions – visits with Santa, writing letters on Christmas Eve, setting out cookies with milk, sprinkling reindeer food on the front lawn, seeing holiday lights, visiting with friends, and so much more. On Christmas morning our brood wakes up to a tree with flashing red and green…
Read MorePotholes of Grief
By: Rose Carlson One of the painful things about grief is there are a multitude of situations that can trigger heavy feelings that you don’t know what to do with, even months and years after your loss. Triggers can come from out of nowhere, and you do not always know what your triggers will be…
Read MoreHow to Help your Grieving Child
By: Rose Carlson Children are often called the forgotten grievers, yet they often feel deep sadness and fear when their baby sibling dies. Depending on their age, they have limited understanding of death and what it means, but they can be quite intuitive and at the very least, they are aware that something is different…
Read MoreAwareness is needed to reach more moms and Dads
By: Marie Kriedman I never knew there was a Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month. In my mind, October was a month of crisp fall air, pumpkin spice overload, colorful leaves, and pink breast cancer ribbons, before beelining into Halloween. I am now very familiar with the pink and blue ribbon that represents a baby…
Read MoreShe is Still a Part of Our Family
By: Marie Kriedman In the immediate days following the miscarriage of our daughter, my husband and I were in a minefield of grief. We were in shock, still trying to understand how our life had taken such a turn, and we felt deeply overwhelmed. We needed a breather from caring for our children, so we…
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