When We Are Support

When you are pregnant, the energy to mother your baby can build a momentum of action and anticipation. From the way you eat, think about your body, prepare for your future, literally every aspect of your life can become influenced by your yet preborn baby.

But what happens to this energy when we endure pregnancy and infant loss?

Often these maternal feelings, passions, instincts and drive feel overwhelming and deeply confusing – what do I do now?

It is with deep sacrifice, humility and love that many bereaved mothers are shifting the direction of their motherly offerings into mothering our mourning – caring for our own healing journey, and in this caring, discovering, curiously, a growing awareness and pressing yearning to be able to share this love with others.

If this is you, stillbirthday has some resources – and guidance -for you.

Preparing for This Journey

New Loss Leaders (addresses feelings and foundational guidelines and wisdom)
Resolving to get Involved (tips on event planning)
Words from SBD Doula Students (inside scoop on our doula training)
Meet Your Local Support (view the listings, meet them, add yours)

Support for Providers

We have an extensive and growing list of support for providers in our Provider Care section.

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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.