8 results for tag: National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day

Choose Hope 2022: T-Shirt + Candle Fundraiser

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.  This month is for all of us who call ourselves Hope Moms. Whether we are barely hanging on or we have found hope amidst the heartache, this month is for us. From before the beginning of time, God set our little ones apart to be our children; and though out of our sight for now, our babies are still ours and always will be.  I know it hurts, and I won’t pretend to know why our babies died, but I will pray that even in our darkest moments, as we cry over what was lost, that we will also offer whispers of gratitude and watch them rise up into praise. May we choose to say, “They are Yours, ...

Tomorrow is October 15

Many families will join across the country tomorrow, t, to remember babies, both in and out of the womb, who have been lost from our earthly lives. As we ready our hearts for this day, let us not forget the bereaved mothers and families who do not yet personally know the hope that is in Christ. I pray that more and more grieving families in our country come to know and hear that this present fallen life, containing devastating loss and grief, is but a moment, and that there is hope beyond this world. I hope this October 15 is a day to see that our grief does not need to isolate us—for there are others alongside of us ...

Choose Hope: Testimony

It had been three years since my first loss. Three years since National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day first felt significant to me. This year, October 15 caught me by surprise. With all of the changes brought about by a recent move and an ever shifting season of life, it had completely escaped my radar. When I realized what day it was, I ran out to grab balloons and helium so that we could do a small balloon release as a family after our kids got home from school. Most of our belongings were in storage as our family was attending a four month training residency at the time, so the items that we would typically get out as we remembered our ...

Choose Hope 2021

The pain of losing a child, whether to miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss, is among the most agonizing of sorrows. Whether your loss occurred many years ago or very recently, the ache you carry in your heart is heavy indeed. There is nothing that can prepare you for the devastation of losing a child, and there are no words that can take away the pain that results. But dear one, your grief does not need to be carried alone. For the past fifteen years, our nation has officially recognized October 15 as an opportunity to honor and remember our precious babies who have gone home before us, and to spread awareness of the tragedy that befalls ...

October 15 Is This Sunday

In a letter to a dear friend, John Newton—who wrote Amazing Grace—expressed hope in Christ babies who go ahead of us: “I cannot be sorry for the death of infants. How many storms do they escape!” When we dwell upon the fullness of joy that our Hope Babies are experiencing right now in heaven with God—and while we miss them dearly every day—we cannot be sorry for them, can we? Nothing is better than to be with Christ; this glorious reality is beyond comprehension. What gratitude is stirred in my soul as I think about this gift! Many families will join across the country on October 15, National Pregnancy and Infant ...

Testimony Tuesday {Choose Hope 2017}

It can be overwhelming for mothers to decide how is best for a Hope Baby to be celebrated. As Hope Moms begin to ponder on how they would like to honor and remember their babies in heaven on October 15, one Hope Mom graciously shares with us multiple ways she honors her Hope Baby on important dates and in her daily life in hopes of giving some ideas: “I sat there all alone waiting for my husband to pull the car around to the bench I was sitting on outside the hospital the day after our son, Hayes, was born. I looked on as other women were also waiting for their husbands to pick them up. There was one glaring difference between those women and ...

Choose Hope 2016

The pain of losing a child, whether to miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss, is among the most agonizing of sorrows.  Whether your loss occurred many years ago or very recently, the ache you carry in your heart is heavy indeed.  There is nothing that can prepare you for the devastation of losing a child, and there are no words that can take away the pain that results.   But dear one, your grief does not need to be carried alone. For the past ten years, our nation has officially recognized October 15 as an opportunity to honor and remember our precious babies who have gone home before us, and to spread awareness of the tragedy that befalls 1 in ...

Choose Hope for 2015

Every year on October 15, nations all across the globe come together in order to recognize Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day.  What started in 1983 with a few volunteers from the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Center (PILC) turned into a movement around the world.    PILC began by calling out to other groups and organizations to join them in raising awareness of infant loss during the month of October.  As the movement grew they set about to petition the Governors of each state to follow them as well.  Soon many states had declared October as Infant Loss Awareness Month, and their campaign continued to gain attention, support, and success ...