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Open to Hope – Pregnancy and Infant Loss
http://www.opentohopepregnancyloss.com
Open to Hope – Pregnancy and Infant Loss is an online grief and bereavement resource for people suffering a miscarriage, loss of an infant, SIDS, and other difficult pregnancy issues.
Recent Posts
Remembering Your Baby on All Souls Day
By Monica Novak - In the Christian traditions, churches all over the world set aside a day of celebrating and remembering our loved ones who have died. Depending on the particular denomination, this day is often referred to as All Souls Day or All ...
First Halloween
By Beth Seyda - I usually love Halloween, seeing all the little kids in their cute costumes struggling to hold up their trick or treat bags and trying to say “trick or treat”. But that first Halloween was only a couple of weeks after ou...
News of Fathering Dead Infant Stirs Up Grief Thirty Years Later
By Monica Novak - A reader (I’ll call her Lori) wrote in one day to say that her husband had been contacted by a woman he had dated nearly 30 years earlier. She told him she had broken up with him because she had been pregnant. She went o...
October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
By Monica Novak - In 1988, when President Ronald Reagan declared October to be Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, I was still in college, not yet married, and motherhood was a distant point in my future. The proclamation, even if I had hear...
Trying Something New Brings Joy and Life to the Bereaved
By Barbara A. Glanz - The following is an excerpt from Barbara’s book What Can I Do? Ideas to Help Those Who Have Experienced Loss: One of the ways we can help people to move on with their lives is to encourage them to do something different ...
Keeping and Sharing Memories of Our Babies
By Monica Novak - When my friend Dawn was pregnant with triplets, due the following June, her husband Andy wanted to surprise her with a special piece of jewelry for Christmas. He had no idea what to get, so the sales lady helped him pick a stone.Â...

