Hosting Memorial/Remembrance Events

Why host remembrance events?

Remembrance events offer the perfect way for families to continue to honor and connect with their baby long after his or her death. These events provide positive meaning and connection to their child's life and facilitate a way for families to cope, survive and even thrive in their "new normal."

Guide for Planning Memorial/Remembrance Events

October 15 Wave of Light

October 15 is known as International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. On this day, it is tradition to light a candle at 7 PM and leave it burning for one hour, thereby creating a world-wide Wave of Light in honor of babies who have died.

Burial Services

Working with a local funeral home to provide burial services is a meaningful and appreciated way to support parents who lose their baby early in pregnancy.

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Holiday Events

The winter holiday season can be a lonely time for bereaved parents, and events held during this time are often the highlight of bereaved families' holiday season.

October Awareness

Knowing others love and remember their baby is heartwarming to bereaved parents. Hosting a gathering to make awareness ribbons or candle holders is a way to honor babies while spreading awareness.

Grandparent Events

When you provide ways for grandparents to honor their beloved grandchild, you are acknowledging their very real grief and reassuring them you care about and support the entire family, not just the bereaved parents.

Mother's Day/Father's Day

These can be two of the most difficult days for grieving parents to get through. Hosting a night that enables them to gather in fellowship while creating something tangible is a way to allow them to grieve and parent their baby.

Bracelet Night

The physical act of creating something beautiful that reminds moms, grandmothers, aunts, sisters and friends of the baby they are missing can be soothing.

Bracelet Night

The physical act of creating something beautiful that reminds moms, grandmothers, aunts, sisters and friends of the baby they are missing can be soothing.

Ritual flows from relationship.

Relationship forms the bridge from suffering to hope.

Hope transforms.

~From Ritual and Reflection when a Child Dies

Parents find it empowering, comforting and healing when they are given opportunities to remember and honor their babies with others who understand their great loss.