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Here are some helpful links to help you plan what to say to honor your baby at his or her funeral:
Poems:
Sermons:
Eulogies:
Prayers:
Songs:
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Here are some helpful links to help you plan what to say to honor your baby at his or her funeral:
Poems:
Sermons:
Eulogies:
Prayers:
Songs:
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You should know:
About Caskets:
About Clothing:
About Financial Assistance:
The following may offer a very limited amount of financial assistance for headstones for babies generally 20 gestational weeks and older, on an application basis.
There may be an organization that support you locally rather than nationally or globally.
Please also visit:
About Funeral Homes & Cremation Options:
About Pricing:
List of Services may include:
These fees may equal to approximately $3,000.
Life Insurance:
Life Insurance may be able to be a part of the financial agreement, but it is really contingent on very specific things.
Life insurance, if used, is more likely used in older child death rather than infant death. The situation that would include infant death might be one where a grandparent to the baby has a life insurance policy for their grandchild, and their grandbaby not alive is certainly their grandchild. Moving forward with life insurance to cover also includes these parameters. The Life Insurance must:
When you decide on a funeral home and cemetary:
Visitation Information:
Funeral Information:
Planning a funeral for your baby will be emotionally difficult. You will need to decide who to invite, including if you’d like a pastor present or not, and you will need to decide what will be said or done to honor your baby. You will probably be allowed to place a small teddy bear, blanket, photo or letter in your baby’s casket.
Here is a list of other ideas that might be of support for you:
Burial Information:
Generally, you will have a representative from the funeral home present during the funeral. The grave will already be dug and may be covered with a mat during the service. Immediately after the service, representatives from the funeral home will lower your baby’s casket. Any flowers that are brought for the funeral may be layed over the gravesite.
If you’d like, you might ask:
Headstone Information:
Cremation Information:
Urns:
Here are some choices:
About Travel/Repatriation:
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Your loved ones may want to participate in your farewell celebration of your baby.
You have a few options in how you want a visitation to proceed:
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The SBD® Doula provides support to families experiencing birth in any trimester and in any outcome.
Here at stillbirthday.info, you can learn about the SBD® Doula.