Hello,

The links did not post before so here is the other post plus links,

Thank you,

Adrianne

Dear All,

SHARE Atlanta (SA) has several activities on its calendar for the next few
months. Along with our monthly meetings and ongoing forums, we have SA:
1. Inservice at Wellstar Developmental Center - for nurses and social workers of
area hospitals
2. Annual Women's Candlelighting service where we will decorate our yearly
memorial tree
3. 5Bs.. blankets, buntings, bonnets, booties and bracelets Packets will be
going out to local hospitals
4. Volunteer Gathering

Important Note: We will NOT be holding our Angel Garden Memorial Service this
year.

October's meeting topic is the Significance of You and Your Baby. The Men and
Women's group meets the first Friday of each month and the Women's meeting is
the third Wed. of the month. We will be talking about the special relationship
we have with our precious baby. Each of our meetings has a booklet of
information to further explore our topic of the evening. During our Oct.
meeting, we have a designated time for sharing any mementos, our memory books,
and/or memory that members wish to bring to our group. If you have experienced
a miscarriage, we hope you will join us. We will touch on ways to keep these
tiny ones close to us...even when so many around us wish for us to move along.
Healing does happen. We explore ways for it to happen. It is always a very
comforting and healing time together.
For directions to the Women's meeting email Marcia...marciahm@... .

Annual Memorial Services:
For the first time since 1995, our annual memorial service at the SHARE Atlanta
Angel Garden will not be held this year.
Our annual Women's Candlelighting will be held as usual on the 3rd Wed. of
November (the 18th this year). Please bring a candle(s) to light in memory of
your baby(s). We are not asking everyone to bring food this year, but if you
would like to help with providing some food, please email me. We will be
decorating our memorial tree for a local hospital during the candlelighting. If
you would like to include an ornament in memory of your baby for our tree,
please bring it on that day or mail it to my home. As always, the theme will be
Forever in our Hearts. You may include your baby's name and dates on the
ornament. We always suggest that you consider making or purchasing another
similar ornament for you to keep in memory of your baby. This candlelighting is
a very special time for our SA moms and their women friends or family members.
We come together to remember, to honor and to share our love for our wee ones.
We hope you will join us.

http://www.shareatlanta.org/legacy/shareatlantaservices.htm Link that includes
information about our Women's Candlelighting service.

Inservice:
After my September note, we had 6 parents express interest in joining our
inservice. During this inservice, we share our SA program, our thoughts on
families and grief, and offer support and information to nurses, social workers,
and chaplains who work with high risk patients. Many of these professionals
will be faced with situations such as ours. We have done this inservice twice
annually for 2 1/2 years now. I have developed a power point with coordinating
booklets. We discuss what to say and not to say and we re-enforce positive
interaction between parents and professionals. I am pleased that Adrianne,
Mindy, Nikecia, and Rodericka will be joining me.
We have very, very positive evaluations after each one of our inservice
presentations. It is an healing activity for those who join us because it gives
us a place to bring our experience full circle in an effort to help future
families. Our experiences tied with what we have learned about grief in SA's
grief groups, provide an incredible platform for open discussion with those
people who we know will be THE initial responders/supporters for future
families. It is a true outreach of love in memory of our children.
5B's Packets:
We also had several parents wish to help with the distribution of our gift
blankets. Alyse Jones, Emily J, Diane O, and Patty A will be joining us. We
still need a few more willing hands. We have over 300 packets to give out!!!
Families and friends have been sending them to us. This summer I developed a
5Bs' brochure for us to give to hospital staff (we will be handing this out at
our inservice 10.13). It suggests better ways to make a fuller use of our
packets. From talking with parents, I realized that, sadly, our gift items
aren't always given to parents so that they can use them while they are with
their baby. Or sometimes, items are washed just before they are given to
parents as they depart the hospital. In talking with nurses, we find that some
don't fully understand the importance of these items. We continue our outreach
to the caring professionals because we know that they do wish to find more
positive ways to support parents.

And more...
I will be sending out other notes with more information about our SA business
meeting and some of our members who have done some very special outreaches in
memory of their babies during the last year or so.
If you have any questions or thoughts, please email me or share it with one of
our volunteers. Tammy White is our Men and Women's group facilitator, Adrianne
Verbanac is our forum facilitator, and we have 10 phone volunteers with Leah
Blurton being our coordinator for that group. We do need new phone volunteers
so some of our group can have a break from the committee. If you wish to
consider being part of that outreach, please let me know.

Our group IS our families. We reach out to one another to support the healing
process. Please help us continue our outreach by participating in our program.
All of the activities that we include in SA are in hopes of healing and are
carried out in memory and in honor of our special babies.

Take care,
Marcia
The love stays..forever in our hearts.
since 1984
Helpful SHARE Atlanta Links:

http://www.shareatltanta.org/legacy/directions2.htm
<http://www.shareatltanta.org/legacy/directions2.htm> Directions and times to
our meetings (Topics are the same for each meeting...the men/women meetings are
RSVP. We also have an online subsequent pregnancy group for those who are
pregnant once again.)
http://www.shareatltanta.org/legacy/forum.htm
<http://www.shareatltanta.org/legacy/forum.htm> Our forum is now being monitored
by: Adrianne. Our SIDS forum is monitored by Carla.
http://www.shareatltanta.org/legacy/griefmenu.htm
<http://www.shareatltanta.org/legacy/griefmenu.htm> Grief process - supportive
thoughts and stories from SA members.
http://www.shareatltanta.org/legacy/joanndiarya.htm
<http://www.shareatltanta.org/legacy/joanndiarya.htm> JoAnn's Diary - JoAnn's
emails to me during that first year or so after her loss..
http://www.shareatlanta.org/legacy/parentpart.htm Ideas for parents