How It Started
Co-Founders Lauren Welch and Hayley Weichler were introduced to each other through a shared, immense desire to provide bereavement and grief support to the loss community. They bonded over a mutual, deep understanding of how severely lacking education and accessibility to support families after loss existed, in their own community. Though both come from a different experiences with losses, Lauren and Hayley have the same goal.
From their few conversations over coffee, Lauren and Hayley were easily able to identify the needs, necessary resources, and what should be routinely offered to the families who tragically lose their babies. They were quickly able to brainstorm a plan to meet these needs with easier accessibility. Most importantly with compassionate, empathetic, specialized care, heart and soul.
Main Objectives:
Bereavement Doula Support
Parents and families need access to bereavement doulas trained specifically in grief, pregnancy loss and infant death. This support should include individualized birth and postpartum doula support, accessibility to names and practices that specialize in grief related to pregnancy and infant loss, and resources to help navigate the emotional complexities of loss.
Physical Recovery
For parents who have experienced pregnancy loss, particularly mothers, physical recovery is critical. Many mothers may feel resentment towards their body for having failed them, resulting in loss of trust and disconnection. Access to trauma-informed somatic practices is needed to begin rebuilding one’s relationship with their physical body.
Community and Peer Support
Parents who have gone through similar losses often provide invaluable emotional support to others facing the same experience. Community support groups can offer a sense of belonging, shared understanding, and validation in their everyday feelings. There is currently no cohesive outreach to make grieving parents aware of what groups exist.