A new resource for bereaved parents has just come out in the last week. I have been wanting to write about it here for a long time, but wanted to wait until it had been officially published.
It is a collection of essays written by a group of 26 people who have lost a child, some in pregnancy, some in infancy, and some later in life. It was written to give those that are new in their grief some hope for the future. Each essay was written to describe one aspect of life in the first year after loss.
I found out about this book when there was a call for essays to be submitted in an online group that I am a part of. The editor of the book was specifically asking for essays from fathers. I forwarded the information on to Dave. He decided to write one and out of several hundred entries, his essay was accepted to be part of the book and one of only two from the perspective of a father.
The book is now available. We are eagerly awaiting its arrival at our house, hopefully in the next couple of days.
Today (October 15th) is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. This year it was also the day of our local hospital's annual Walk to Remember. We walked and released balloons to remember Nathaniel and all the other babies who died too soon. Then tonight Dave and the girls lit a candle for the international wave of light to remember all the babies and children who have died.
