Brochures & Booklets
All our brochures are free and we can post them out to you anytime. If you would like to help us place our miscarriage brochure in your local Hospital, GP's and Obstetrician rooms, please contact us. Your support is greatly needed and appreciated.
"Creating A Lifetime of Memories in Just One Moment" Booklet
A must have guide for parents before they leave the hospital without their baby, incorporating a no regrets outlook on creating those lifelong memories. This booklet includes everything a parent should know in the first 5-7 days of their loss through late miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal loss. Information including important memory creating ideas, how to tell family and friends, Autopsy, holding a funeral or memorial service, and support readily avaialble once they leave the hospital.
This is our standard brochure including important information about Bears Of Hope.
It includes:
- Our Support Services including support groups, home and hospital visits, phone and email support, quarterly Newsletters, events and fundraisers, and our grief and loss library.
- Information on our website
- How to donate a Bear of Hope
- Annual Charity Ball Information
- City2Surf Team Information
- Volunteering
- Donation Form
If you would like these for a special fundraising event or to have at your business please contact us.
In early 2009, Bears Of Hope developed this highly supportive miscarriage brochure after identifying a real need for this support within the hospital system. There was no or very little support literature offered to parents through Emergency Departments, Social Work, Day Surgery or Early Pregnancy Assessment Services to support parents who had a miscarriage. Our hope is to have our miscarriage brochures and/or Hope bears in all hospitals, IVF clinics, OB and GP rooms supporting parents who experience this early loss, who often have to try and cope on their own. This can be very traumatic if parents have also experienced recurrent miscarriage loss and have had very little acknowledgement of their loss. We provide a unique support service to let these parents know they are not alone right from the beginning, to offer comfort at a very devastating time, and that support is readily available.
In mid 2010, Bears Of Hope developed this important guide to help family and friends support parents after the loss of their baby. It addresses the immediate needs parents seek and hope for, such as acknowledgement, being there, avoiding unhelpful comments, other pregnancies, how to initiate conversations, listening without judgement. It also addresses the ongoing support family and friends can provide such as remembering special dates, honouring their baby, support during the next pregnancy, detecting depression, support groups etc. These brochures have been used at funeral or memorial services by families to pass on to their friends.
A very useful, practical guide to inform family and friends of the traumatic impact the loss of a baby has on parents and how they can help them through.