Fellow Baby Loss Mamas, I Need Your Help

If you have been reading my blog for awhile you will have probably noticed that I have started to add pages to the top of my blog. One of the pages I have recently added is a page called Ministries.
This page is a list of buttons that link to other blogs and sites that have been set up by BLM. I know how much I have been blessed by many of these women in the last two months and I want to be able to list all the memorial options in one place for other BLM to find and be bless by as well.

I know there are a lot of ministries and organizations that have been started in memory of a child that has died. I would like to add all of them to my blog and the page in particular.

I only have a few listed right now, so I need your help to add more.

To help me accomplish this goal, if your button is not already on the page please either leave me a comment here on this post or send me an e-mail to alastingfootprint (at) gmail.com. Include the link to your page and a short description of what the organization or ministry is. I will include the description as well under the button.

Also if you know of an organization or ministry, even if it is not your own please let me know.

One other thing I need help with. If your button has already been added, I also what to put a bit of information about the ministry or organization below the button. So if you could send me a little paragraph that summerizes it, that would be so helpful also.

Compassionate Friends

Tonight I attended a support group called Compassionate Friends. It is a national organization that just happens to have a charter here in our town. Compassionate Friends supports families through the loss of a child. Any family member, parents, grandparents, and siblings are welcome to attend these once a month meetings. It is a special time of sharing about the dead child and a safe place to share your feelings.

I was so touch tonight by what was shared. It helped me to realize that first I am not alone in my grief and that the feelings that I have are completely normal, but also that even years from now I am still going to miss Emily. That will never go away and it is okay to continue to miss her.

I was just in awe of these women, the pain some of  them have been through, and they have survived. If they can survive the kind of pain they have endured. I am sure that I can survive my pain. I am not down playing my grief or my pain, but some of these women have endured so much, it was a blessing to me tonight to see them still making it through each day.


On a completely different topic, today I read about a family that is going through a very difficult time. Their 5 year old daughter Lucy has a brain tumor. She was diagnosed less than a month ago. Her mom Kate has a blog that she is now using to keep everyone updated on the progress and treatment of Lucy. This family has an incredible faith that is sustaining them, but they also need a lot of prayer. I feel so burdened to pray for them. Will you please join me in praying for Lucy and her family. You can read about Lucy here.

Rows for Rememberance

There are some wonderful women, who have started some wonderful ministries to moms who have lost a child. One of those ministries that I recently found out about, is called Row for Rememberance. Shaina provides an "unfinished blank" to mothers who have had a child die before they were born.

 This is what Shaina says about her new ministry...

I want to minister to families who have had a miscarriage, or suffered the death of a baby while pregnant. Sadly, I know several women who fit this niche, and I know there are thousands more out there. I want to give them a blanket, an "unfinished blanket", to represent their babies sweet lives.

Each blanket will have rows that represent the weeks of their little ones lives. Our blankets will start out with a specified amount of rows (20) and then will have an additional row for every week that you carried your baby. If you had a miscarriage at eight weeks, like me, then your blanket will be 28 rows long. If you had a baby born sleeping at 34 weeks, then your blanket will be 54 weeks. Each row signifies those memories you have of your sweet babe.

If you are at all interested, please check out her site. She is looking for volunteers to knit or crochet blankets and also people who would like to donate yarn or financail help. She is also looking for family whom she could bless with these blankets. You can nominate someone or simply request your own blanket.