With one in four pregnancies ending with the loss of a baby through stillbirth, miscarriage, or infant death, the National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day is a heart-rending observance for hundreds of thousands of grieving parents nationwide.
who lost her nearly four-month-old son, Christopher, in April 2015, “pick up the pieces and not feel alone.” For the last seven years TFP has provided grieving mothers with over $90,000 in food gift cards, 1600 hours of housecleaning and massage therapy, 2,300 counseling hours and over 20,000 volunteer hours of supporting grieving mothers. While all services are free for the mothers, it costs TFP $1,500 to support each mother.
In an interview with Moore, she discussed the critical needs TFP fulfills in serving grieving mothers nationwide, filling a critical gap in self-care for the mothers as they bid farewell to their child. Why is there such a lack of proper support for mothers who experience infant loss? Is it the lack of true understanding or funds? : Infant loss support is exceptionally overlooked and not funded because it’s peoples’ worst nightmare.
For instance, a private foundation donated $8,040 to fund Licensed Mental Health Counseling for 10 mothers to encourage each mother to continue living her life after a loss. Changing the World Charitably donated over $14,000 to fund professional house cleaning and licensed mental health counseling for 14 mothers to cleanse their homes of the external chaos and provide counseling while they grieved.
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