Hope Isabella Henderson

Ways to Remember Your Baby

Artwork & Photography
 Holiday Ornaments
  • Make or purchase ornaments that pay tribute to your baby.
        - The Comfort Company - Stepping stones, tear bottles, and memorial trees/rocks in
           addition to ornaments         -
        - Child Loss Ornament, Love to Know
        - Personalization Mall Memorial Ornaments
        - Russell Rhodes Memorial Ornaments
Jewelry
  • Birthstone Jewelry - Make or purchase jewelry using your baby’s birthstone.  The chart below reflects the dedicated gemstone and color for each month of the year.
  • Close by Me Jewelry - Offers a subtle and unique memorial allowing you to remember your loved one always.
  • My Forever Child - Fertility, awareness, hand/footprint jewelry.
  • Waveform Necklace - Get an unique necklace or bracelet, by recording the name of your baby. The design of this necklace is generated from any kind of audio sample, its shape represents the audios waveform.
Month
Gemstone
Color
January
Garnet
Deep Red
February
Amethyst
Purple
March
Aquamarine/Bloodstone
Pale Blue
April
Diamond
White/Clear
May
Emerald
Green
June
Pearl/Moonstone
White/Purple
Month
Gemstone
Color
July
Ruby
Red
August
Peridot/Sardonyx
Pale Green
September
Sapphire
Deep Green
October
Opal/Pink Tourmaline
Multi-color/Pink
November
Citrine/Yellow Topaz
Yellow
December
Blue Topaz/Turquoise
Blue
Memorial Bricks & Stones
  • SHARE Pregnancy and Infant Loss (Atlanta Chapter) - SHARE Atlanta provides local grief support groups, services, workshops, and outreach for healing and advocacy at no fee, as well as memory bricks and angel memorial garden in Sandy Springs, GA.
  • Sidewalk Stones, Children's Park of Georgia - These special stones provide a special way to honor precious lives that are no longer with us and are never forgotten. It also provides an uplifting place to visit on birthdays and difficult anniversaries. Children can have a picnic next to the engraved stones of siblings and then do what children do best – play.
Memory Boxes, Books, Kits
Create a baby album, collage, shadowbox or storybook/memory box using your keepsakes and photos.
  • A Place to Remember - Support and memorial materials  for those who have been touched by a crisis in pregnancy or the death of a baby including special baby books, music, keepsake items, and cards.
  • H.A.I.N. (Heavenly Angels in Need) - Non-profit organization providing  baby clothing and memory boxes to hospitals in their effort to help "families one angel at a time".
  • The March of Dimes Bereavement Kit for Parents - Includes an envelope with sections to put keepsakes, photos, ultrasound pictures, and designated lines for information about the baby. Call 1-888-MODIMES or email askus@marchofdimes.com

Idea
Create a baby album, collage, shadowbox or storybook/memory box using your keepsakes and photos.
Name Your Baby
  • If you don’t know the gender of your baby, use a gender-neutral name or a nickname. 
Plant Flowers, Bulbs, Gardent or a Tree
  • Memorial Flower Preservation - Website offering special memorial jewelry using real flowers (theirs or you can send your own) and cremation ashes.
  • Symbolic Birth Flowers - The entire family, including children, can participate. Each birth flower holds distinctive symbolic traits. Below is a guide to each month's specific flower and the meaning tied to their petals.
          - January, Carnation: pride and gratitude with its gorgeous floral scent and abundant paper-like petals
          - February, Iris: faithfulness and virtue with its royal purple hues and elegant stem
          - March, Daffodil: affection and new beginnings with it's bright yellow tones and sunny disposition
          - April, Peonies: riches and honor with its full, rounded bloom full of paper-like petals
          - May, Lily: purity and humility with its sweet fragrance and large star-like petals
          - June, Rose: love and happiness with its encircling petals and famous scent
          - July, Delphinium: lightness with its refreshing fragrance and columned blooms
          - August, Dahlia: dignity and elegance with its rounded bloom full of lush  petals available in many bright and
             rich colors
          - September, Aster: elegance and affection with its lush texture and jeweled hues
          - October, Calendula: joy and modesty with its bright hued petals and happy disposition
          - November, Chrysanthemum: optimism and cheerfulness with its hardy textures and bright myriad of
            available colors and types
          - December, Holly: good will with its vibrant red berries and hardy green leaves
Plan a Memorial Service
For many parents, a memorial service is an important step in the grieving process because it is a way for you to not only honor your baby’s life, but it can also be healing—the beginning of putting your lives back together again. Holding a funeral or other memorial service may also help family and friends understand that your baby was a beloved member of your family who will be greatly missed.  Click on the text above to read about ideas and suggestions for planning your own special memorial service.
Teddy Bears & Memory Bears
Memory bears you can have made from a special article of clothing or blanket that belonged to your baby
Writing & Announcements         - Baby Dekar Example
         - Elegant Memorials - Sample