Stillbirthday Rainbow Bridge

As a doula, birth is often likened to a bridge.

I can companion a mother through labor to birth, and I can meet her on the other side after her baby is born, but the actual birth of her baby, in any trimester, is her journey.

I can’t cross the bridge for her, and I can’t undo the journey for her. She is the mother whose body is laboring forward.

Have you heard a Waldorf birth story? It is a spiritual story, that includes the baby crossing a rainbow bridge at birth. It is a story that parents read to their children every birthday – and, quite appropriately, every stillbirthday as well.

This beautiful rainbow bridge is in Taiwan. Wouldn’t you just love to go there and light a lantern for your baby from this bridge?

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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I would not undo his existence just to undo my pain.

— stillbirthday mother, http://www.stillbirthday.com

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

— George Eliot

Much more than pro-life or pro-choice, I am pro-healing.

— an SBD Doula

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

— T.S. Eliot

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

— Jean Cocteau

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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.