Living & Stewarding Grief

This is a portion of stillbirthday designated to bring awareness to the realities and struggles that pertain to living grief. Examples of aspects that may find themselves within this demographic can include:

Living Grief: grieving aspects of parenthood, related to children who are alive: can include birth trauma, fostering, adoption, shared/step parenting, surrogacy, empty nesting and menopause

Stewarding Grief: emotional aspects of deciding to limit or inhibit fertility

Related Resources:

Dual Role Parenthood

Library of Stories:

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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Miscarriages are labor, miscarriages are birth. To consider them less dishonors the woman whose womb has held life, however briefly.

— Kathryn Miller Ridiman

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

— Joseph Hall

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

— Robert Bolt

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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