Love Letters & Other Writings

Love Letters are beautiful ways of exploring our motherhood and our bereavement authentically. They are ways we Mother Our Mourning.

We have several collections of Love Letters, including:

To your loved ones, for their support of you along your journey. Rather than a series of thank you cards, one published message can be simpler for you.
To your beloved, deceased baby.
To your self or to your body.
To your spouse.
To your surviving and/or subsequent daughter (stillbirthday grandmothers/sisters).
To other parents who are rearing living children while grieving (we call this Holding Umbrellas).
To Another Mother (Hope): you can write a letter of validation, sisterhood, and hope to other mothers.
To Another Mother (PAL): Lindsey of Stillborn & Still Breathing has authored a special program called PAL Love Letters. This is an opportunity for mothers who have experienced pregnancy after loss (PAL) to write a Love Letter to a fellow MOM who is pregnant again after loss. You can offer hope, encouragement and information as you share with her what your journey of pregnancy after loss has been like.

Sharing Your Love Letters

Publish your Love Letter within our Remembrance Network, or,
Just use our sharing tab to allow us to hold your Love Letters.

In addition to writing Love Letters, we have ways for you to share your baby’s birth story, add your blog to our blog roll, and more.

Reading Your Love Letters Aloud

After you have written your Love Letter, you are invited to join us on the 10th of each month {this is the first day of the month that the “0” is seen} during an online gathering we call a “Stillbirthday Party” – where we read our letters aloud, through a special online meeting space held within Stillbirthday University.

Later, you can collect all of your letters together into one Still Parenting Journal.

This photo is from Dirty Footprints Studio, a beautiful resource for creativity through bereavement.

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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.