Information, support, and ideas on how to be a supportive friend to someone who loses a child to stillbirth, from a mom who has been through it
(Topic: Weighted bears, grief, grief recovery, infant loss, also Halloween!) Our Molly Bear, one weighted bear option Introduction This is another shareable post! Please feel free to share the link to this blog or this post specifically. In honor of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, I am focusing on topics that will help friends
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(Topic: Weighted bear, Zoo. Caution, last picture is of our stillborn son) Pookie chillin’ on a carved tortoise Hi Friends! As you saw a week ago, we like to visit animal parks. We recently went to “Living Treasures”, a local park in New Castle, PA. While not expansive, all the animals were well kept, and
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(Topic: Photo story, Weighted Bear) Hi Friends! The other day I had a low-motivation morning, and I realized I needed a little help getting going. My family was coming for dinner, too, so there were some errands and housework that needed to happen, plus setting the table, making things look nice, and then, of course,
(Topic: Gravesite) Dear Friends, One of the ways I “cultivate” Charlie’s memory (ha ha ha!) is by gardening around his grave stone. We are lucky to have him in an old and beautiful cemetery that is open to people gardening on the gravesites, as long as you stay roughly within their parameters and guidelines. As
(Topic: Teddy Bear)Warning, picture heavy post! Dear Friends, If you’ve been reading many of my posts, you almost certainly have met Pookie by now. His name is short for Charles Peacock Bear-Warner. Since he shares his name with our son, his nickname is based on his middle name instead of his first name. He’s a
(Topic: Travel, history) Dear Friends, I recently had the fortune to go on a road trip with hubby, one of my sisters, and her dog. We made a few stops in either direction – the final destination being a family event. Here are a few of the neat things we discovered in either direction: Much
(Topic: Explaining Weighted Bears, Infant Loss) Dear Friends, You may have noticed that Pookie (our weighted Molly Bear) comes with us to a lot of places. He’s our avatar for Charlie, but in a way, we have attributed a sort of imaginary personality to Pookie himself, and he’s a member of our family too, in
[trigger warning: this post will discuss themes related to strong emotion, miscarriage, fear, and grief] Dear Friends, Guess who just took his first airplane flight?!? [and probably his last… more on that later]. We recently took a trip to Boston, and this was the first time I’d flown with Pookie. Previously, all trips we’ve taken
Introductions Part II Bears and Others Hi Friends! I promised pictures of the non-tigers… so here we go! Oh, well actually, first is a new tiger to the bunch! He’s a Tigger, but since we already have a Tigger, this guy needs a name, or at least some sort of nickname to differentiate him. He’s
(Topic: What I would be doing with Charlie) Dear Friends, This post is a bit late! Oops! I thought I’d posted this picture, but realized that I hadn’t, and thus, hadn’t shared the story. This last Christmas I did something I don’t ever remember doing before. I went to a mall Santa. I’ve never ever