Julias Story
Grief Process
Dads Corner
Memorial Garden
Links
Banners
Julias Garden Awrds 4 U
Awards I Recieved
JuliasGarden Banners
Message Board
Graphics 4 UR site
Poems
Info on Loss
Funnies
Family Photos
Create a baby album for your son or daughter. Include a locket of hair, identification bracelets, birth cards and anything else you desire. If you have other children, allow them to write their feelings and thoughts in the album.
Offer a donation on behalf of your child. Many organizations will send thank you cards when you do. Be sure to include this in your baby's album.
Allow yourself to purchase special frames for your baby's photographs and allow yourself to hang the pictures in your home if you are comfortable with that. You may choose a particular wall where many family pictures are displayed to include your baby's photos. Other parents hang framed poetry and prints as special reminders of their child.
There are many beautiful lockets which you can purchase for a picture of your child. Choose something very special which you can engrave a message to your child on, such as "You are always in our hearts 7-27-94"
Purchase either with your child's birthstone. It is a wonderful and eloquent way to remember them.
Keep a memory box with your child's items in it. Such items might include a blanket from the hospital, booties, your baby album, stuffed animals, medical records from your birth, sympathy cards from friends and family, and any other memorial items you may have.
Some states will allow you to participate in a tree-planting program at a local park in memory of your child. If that is not an option, consider a tree in your yard, or at your church with a plaque dedicating the tree to your child. You can expand it into a memorial or contemplation garden which includes engraved bricks, flowers, and angel statues.
