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Author of Empty Arms, Sherokee Ilse will be in Sierra Vista

This month at our support group on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 6:30 pm, Sherokee Ilse, a bereaved mom and author of Empty Arms will be a guest speaker. She will be sharing her 27+ years of experience working with families in a discussion geared for couples to better understand each other's grieving and surviving styles, as well as how family members 'cope' and how to communicate with them. Sherokee and Tim Nelson just wrote and published their book, Couple Communication After a Baby Dies: Differing Perspectives.

Please come out and join us, everyone is welcome!

The C.A.R.E. Support Group meets the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Sierra Vista Regional Health Center’s Outreach Education Center located at 1840 Paseo San Luis. Any questions please contact Rebecca Buksh @234-0809.

Honor your baby...Impact Congress March 25

Honor your baby...Impact Congress

Help us send parents to Washington DC for the Infant Loss Symposium and
meetings with Congressmen on March 24-25, 2009

And let us bring your babies pictures and stories with us!


We invite you to help support important Stilbirth/SIDS legislation by
participating in the creation of “Our Babies—Always Loved, Always
Remembered—Memorial Album”

On March 25, 2009 bereaved parents and other infant health advocates from
around the country and from many different loss organizations will be coming
together on Capitol Hill to lobby for important legislation related to
stillbirth, SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) and SUID (sudden unexpected
infant death.)

If you send us your baby's name, pictures, and or short stories, you will
help make it real to those who have the power to create legislation and
appropriate money to support research, awareness, and education on
stillbirth, SIDS, and SUID. We are creating a Baby Memorial Album that our
parent teams will leave with each Legislative office. Would you like your
baby's name/photo in it???

To learn more about how more about it and how to participate click here
www.firstcandle.org/our-babies/

Spring, the season of new life

~We are forever changed for having known the gift that was you. We miss you terribly and who you would have been, But we are much better people because you have touched our lives... if only for a brief moment..~
As spring approaches we are often reminded of new life with feelings of renewal, warm weather, longer days, change, flowers, fresh air, and transition. For bereaved parents often times you look for something to take the pain away and make your lives alright again. Spring does not make everything okay; what it can do is remind us that regardless of what happens in our lives, natures process will continue, and that will offer us hope. Know that one day again you will welcome spring again. Be gentle and patient with yourself and nature. Be ready to let a little of the hope that spring can offer into your heart.

Fast-Paced World

We live in a fast-paced world where emotions are often a sign of weakness. Often if our feelings tug on us during the day we want to tuck them away and hide them, either because we don’t have time to face them or we don’t want to let others know that we are struggling. However, I believe that God gives us feelings for a reason – they are often our soul or psyche’s way of letting us know that something is wrong or that there’s something we need to attend to, just as an aching limb tells us to take it easy on exercise or a sharp pain tells us something is broken. Take some time during the day to attend to your feelings. Acknowledge them. Allow yourself to cry, or to be angry. Write about it, or talk to someone about it. And be easy on yourself. Take a little time to do something you enjoy, talk to someone who loves you for who you are, and slow down a bit. Listen to the concerns on your heart and offer them up as a prayer.
Peace,
Chaplain Emily

C.A.R.E. Perinatal Bereavement Support Group

We are pleased to announce, we now have a perinatal bereavement support group. Our support group is open to anyone who is dealing with a perinatal loss (miscarriage, stillborn, or newborn/infant death).

When:
First Tuesday of every month
Time:
6:30pm-8:00pm
Where:
Sierra Vista Regional Health Center- Outreach Center
1840 Paseo San Luis
Sierra Vista, Arizona 85635

If you would like more information, please call:
Rebecca Buksh at 520-234-0809

Welcome

Welcome to C.A.R.E., your local, online resource for perinatal grief. In situations of grief and loss, it’s easy to feel alone or unsure about where to turn. C.A.R.E. staff at Sierra Vista Regional Health Center wants you to know that there are places to go and people to talk to while you heal and sort through the overwhelming emotions associated with loss.

This fledgling program hopes to grow into a firm foundation for parents living with loss in Cochise County, Arizona. We have a passion and the vision for supporting the quiet suffering so many women and families experience when a pregnancy ends unexpectedly.

Long-term goals include:

1. A local support group with a specific focus on perinatal grief.
2. Providing perinatal grief resources to local clergy and congregations.
3. Improving and expanding follow up care for perinatal grief patients at SVRHC, and the surrounding community.

In the meantime, we hope this blog will help connect you with the people, places and resources you need. Stay tuned for updates, articles and information to come and pass this blog on to your friends and family in need of support. Do you have a question or topic to be addressed by the C.A.R.E. staff? Don’t hesitate to contact us and add to the conversation.

God bless your journey. May you find the peace and comfort you are looking for.

Rebecca Buksh
C.A.R.E. Perinatal Bereavement Coordinator
Phone: 520-417-4557
Email: rebecca.buksh@svrhc.org
Sierra Vista Regional Health Center Website: http://www.svrhc.org/