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Day Training | UnityPoint Sioux City

Date: January 18, 2019 Host: UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Sioux City Hospital  |  FB Host Contact: Amaris Garcia, SBD Location: UnityPoint Health – St. Lukes  2720 Stone

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Born on Christmas Eve

She learned she was pregnant while the late summer sun was hot in the sky. Two tiny pink stripes of motherhood and two flushed pink cheeks

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Midwife of Thanatology

Death is, at best, an uncomfortable subject, and at worse, a terribly frightening thought that most would rather run from.  We have even gone so

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61 and 41 Years Later

Told by: Joyce I will never forget the nurse who saw me pacing the floor the night that I had my full-term stillborn son on

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Shame

Grief is the hardest challenge I have ever been faced with. You would think, that bereaved mothers share something universal, something collective, and that we

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The Missions Field of Mourning

Pregnancy and infant loss knows no boundaries. It touches every continent, every culture, every community. Stillbirthday aims to do the same.   The perspectives, traditions,

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Student Sharing

As we start a new class, inevitably friends and supporters of the SBD doula students want to have a peek, an inside view of what

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Something to Give

Told by: Kelly Gerken, SBD This was originally written at Sufficient Grace Ministries. Yesterday, I stood again in the place where heaven and earth meet.

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New Loss Leaders

Whether your experience was some time ago or has been more recent, I first, extend to you my heart, and tell you that I am

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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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