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Resources and Links - Ways To Remember
*Â Submit a poem or letter or a birthday greeting to our Newsletter or web site
* Release balloons on special days
* Make a donation in memory of your child(ren) to the organization of your choice such as Glory Babies
* Create a Remembrance necklace or bracelet with charms.
* Find special/different things to put at the cemetery. This helps you as well as shows the world that they were and still are loved.
* Light a special candle during family gatherings
* Buy or make an ornament in your baby's memory
* Purchase a poinsettia to decorate your church in your baby's memory
* Give a gift to a needy child
* Wear your baby's birthstone to holiday functions
* Participate in a Walk To Remember in your area in memory of your child(ren)
* Write a letter or poem to your child(ren)
* Start a memory box containing mementoes that remind you of your child(ren).
* Make a quilt or cross-stitch with your baby's name on it.
* Make a stepping-stone with your child(ren)'s name in it.
* Release a butterfly, in symbolizing releasing your child in to God's hands.
* Make a donation to you favorite charity in memory of your child.
* Get a bracelet with your baby's name on it (www.for brittnay.com, or call 972-724-3434. If you mention Glory Babies in Tyler TX we will get 10% of the sale)
* Donate a seasonal flower (Easter Lilly, poiensetta, etc.) to your church in memory of your child(ren).
* Plant a tree
* Wear a corsage to church on mother's day in memory of your child(ren).
* Donate a special book to the library in memory of your child(ren).
* Visit the cemetery
* Take a basket of treats to the nurses who were there with you and who cared for your baby, it will touch their heart.
* If possible, plant flowers beside your child's headstone. Then plant the same flower at home. This way you can feel that your child is near you.
* Light a candle on special days and let it burn. Blow it out to symbolize letting go and remember its warmth and glow.
* Use their date of birth and/or name as passwords, access codes, and other uses you would have on a daily basis. You will remember your child every time you use it.
* Make a donation to the Gideon's Bible Foundation in memory of your child, knowing that someone will read the Word of God because of your child's life.
* Bake cup cakes for your child's birthday and deliver them to the hospital unit where you delivered your precious child. They went through it with you and will be touched by your remembering and celebration of your child's life.
* Buy an age-appropriate gift for your baby and give it to a charity in memory of your baby
* Donate a children's or pregnancy loss book to your local library
* Hang a stocking for your baby and put a flower in it Christmas morning
* Buy an adapted class ring, put the child's name in the place of the school name, the stone is their birthstone and the year is the year they were born.
* Have a birthday party for your child(ren) on their birthday. It doesn't have to be anything elaborate; simply a day set aside time for you and your family to remember the special things about them.
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