Bears Of Hope Book- Can you help?
Bears Of Hope are in the process of developing a book which will support and guide parents through their grieving and healing journey. Our book will be unique because not only will it include parent’s stories, but it will address how parents personally experienced certain situations and overcame particular obstacles after their loss.
Grieving parents look for connections. Giving insight into what grieving parents face in their day to day life after a loss will allow readers to know that what they are feeling is a normal response to such tragedy, creating a sense of comfort and reassurance. Providing personal accounts of how parents faced and overcame certain challenges will hopefully facilitate a gentler healing journey for parents to find hope in their hearts again.
We are asking all parents who have experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal or infant death, to consider voluntarily contributing to our very first book. Feel free to share your story, and/or choose particular headings from below to write about your personal experience.
We also welcome stories from Grandparents, family members, and friends.
- Your Story -written by the mother and/or the father
- How You Honour Your Baby
- The first time you went out in public
- Seeing Pregnant Mums
- Your relationship with your partner – How did you both
deal with your loss? Were you able to support each other? - Waiting for and receiving the results
- Hearing of friends pregnancy and birth announcements
- Inconsiderate comments you faced
- Being depressed and how you overcame it
- Trying for a baby again
- Being pregnant again
- Parenting after your loss
- What support helped you through your grief?
- Letting go of your grief, how you faced moving forward
- Facing special dates – EDD, Birthdays, Anniversaries,
Mothers Day, Father’s Day, Christmas, etc - Explaining to siblings and how you support your children through the loss of their brother/sister
- The first month after your loss
- Facing 6 months on
- Feeling trapped in your grief, that feeling of just wanting to scream
- Going back to work
- Support of your friends and family
- Getting through your own birthday
- Other siblings birthdays
- The should have been's
- Holidays without your baby
Please feel free that if there is something else you would like to share, please do so. This is all of ours, this is something that we are all coming together for to help others from the beginning of their loss.
Please email your submissions to cnnobile@hotmail.com by 1st December 2010.
All enquiries can be sent to contact@bearsofhope.org.au