If you have miscarried or lost an infant, and live in the LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA area....

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The local Walk to Remember event this year will be conducted on Saturday, October 25 at 2 pm in Craddock Auditorium at Virginia Baptist.  For more information, contact Evelyn Harker, RN, at [phone].

The RTS Bereavement Support Group meets monthly on the third Tuesday, 7:30 pm, in the Private Dining Room at Virginia Baptist Hospital.  This is a self-help group where parents find support as they share hurts and healing in their grief journeys.

Books are available for loan on pregnancy and infant loss and grief.  Peer support contacts are offered.  Parents who have completed a grief training program volunteer to make telephone and written contact to newly bereaved parents.  Additionally, telephone and written follow-up contacts are provided by the program coordinator.

Bereaved parents may add an 8x8 inch finished quilt square to our memorial quilt in memory of their baby/babies.  The quilts are displayed in the Bereavement office behind the Birth Center and annually at the Walk to Remember.  They also are displayed at educational fairs.

The Walk to Remember takes place in the month of October, which is national Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month. Parents across the nation participate in symbolic walks and memorial services during this month.  The local Walk to Remember event this year will be conducted on Saturday, October 20th.  The event begins with a memorial service in Virginia Baptist Hospital's Craddock Auditorium.  Parents share reflections, poetry, and music during this special time of remembrance.  This is followed by a symbolic walk on the streets surrounding Virginia Baptist Hospital and concludes with tulip bulb planting in the memorial garden on Oak Lane.

http://www.centrahealth.com/patient/bereavement.aspx

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Sep. 12, 2009 at 3:45 PM

Just Those Few Weeks

For those few weeks-
I had you to myself
And that seems too short of time
To be changed so profoundly

In those few weeks-
I came to know you...
And to love you.
You came to trust me with your life.
Oh, what a life I had planned for you!

Just those few weeks-
When I lost you,
I lost a lifetime of hopes,
plans, dreams, and aspirations...
A slice of my future simply vanished overnight

Just those few weeks-
It wasn't enough time to convince others
How special and important you were.
How odd, a truly unique person has recently died
And no one is morning the passing.

Just a mere few weeks-
And no "normal" person would cry all night
Over a tiny unfinished baby,
Or get depressed and withdraw day after endless day
No one would, so why am I?

You were just those few weeks my little one
You darted in and out of my life too quickly
But it seems that all the time you needed
To make my life so much richer
And give me a glimpse of eternity.

(By Susan Erlin - found on the internet)

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