Bambi Chapman Scholarship

Bambi is a stillbirthday mother. She is Mary Beth’s mother.

Mary Beth wasn’t born via miscarriage or stillbirth. She was born alive, but she died soon after.

Bambi’s darkest days teach us what so many people can do better: birth professionals of all levels, paramedics, church family, the community, and, even other mothers.

Recipients of the Bambi Chapman Scholarship will demonstrate a mature and humble desire to improve their demographic, to better serve bereaved families, to minimize the potential of secondary trauma that can occur when abandonment, shame, betrayal and neglect happen, and to maximize and magnify healing opportunities among bereaved families and individuals.

Qualifications:

Any parent who has experienced bereavement through pregnancy & infant loss.

Award:

One Bambi Chapman Scholarship will be awarded each SBD training session. The Scholarship award grants 100% tuition toward the SBD training for the chosen recipient. In addition, once the recipient has been awarded the Bambi Chapman Scholarship, he or she will also be entitled to bear the Scholarship logo.

To apply:

Please submit application letter with subject: scholarship to heidi.faith@stillbirthday.com

Please be advised that I do not send “rejection letters”. Each and every application is important. I believe your submission may be powerful, poignant, thought provoking, emotion evoking, and heartwarming, yet another name may be chosen for this particular scholarship. You can check our updated class roster from Stillbirthday University as it will indicate the names of scholarship recipients. If you do not yet see one listed for that session, one has not been designated yet.

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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BECOME A DOULA!

Enroll now in the Birth & Bereavement Doula® program!

We onboard enrolled students into the program by email invitation.

After tuition, you can email heidi.faith@stillbirthday.com directly to expedite this step. Alternatively, if you prefer fb communications, you can join us in Admissions.