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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Love me when I least deserve it for that is when I need it the most.

— Swedish proverb

Hurting people hurt people.

— Unknown

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

— Leo Tolstoy

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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.