Memories of your pregnancy, birth and time with your child are precious.
Before saying good bye you may want to:
Take photos
Bathe your child
Wash them in a special scented soap
Put a nappy on them and dress them
Take your child outside
Have family and friends visit
Take hand and foot prints, hand and feet castings
Collect a lock of hair
Place items of clothing, blankets/wraps that your child wore in a snap lock
bag to retain their smell
You can keep hospital bracelets, name cards and other hospital items used for
your child and place them within your journal. Just ask the hospital staff to keep them aside for you.
It might help you to create a scrapbook of your memories including items from
your pregnancy like pregnancy tests, ultrasound pictures, belly photos and other keepsakes from your pregnancy and birth.
Congratulations to the following winners who have each won a ticket to attend Yasminah's Gift Of Hope Inaugural Butterfly Garden Ball to be held at Lachlans, Old Government House, Parramatta, NSW on Satruday the 11th of August from 6:30pm.
The winners will join us on this very special evening as we dress up, dance the night away, make new friends and also to remember the children who were miscarried, born premature, born sleeping or who passed away during infancy or were born with a congenital abnormality.
We will honour, remember and celebrate them during the evening.
Rebecca Henricksen and Nate Morabito
Sharon Borig-Lathlean
and partner
Jaharri Pitts and
Mariah Devontae
Chrissy Rickards and
partner
Kirby Richmond Davis
and Glenn Davis
Kellie Grainger and
Christopher Grainger
Claire Elise Griffin
and Bob Lloyd
Renee Yeardye and
James Yeardye
Terrilee Zimmehl and
partner
I look forward to meeting you all on the evening and want to thank you for supporting Yasminah's Gift Of Hope.
If you could all please send me an email to book your tickets
Yasminah's Gift Of Hope Journals are donated to Maternity and NICU wards in public and private hospitals around Australia for families who experience miscarriage, premature birth, neonatal loss, stillbirth, infant loss or the diagnosis of a congenital abnormality during pregnancy.
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?
Either donate a journal or donate $2 for us to purchase a journal in June
*Journals can be blank or lined inside, spiral or case bound
*You can donate a journal you decorate OR send them to us plain and we will decorate them ready to donate to the hospitals
Yasminah's Gift Of Hope is endorsed by the Australian Tax Office as a Tax Deductible Gift Recipient. All donations over $2 are tax deductible.
OR by Direct Bank Deposit
Yasminahs Gift Of Hope
BSB: 012556 Account Number: 905083525
Please ensure you send an email to fundraising@ygoh.org.au with your name, address and contact phone number so we can issue you with a tax receipt if donating by Direct Bank Deposit
Journals can be donated in memory or honour of a child/ren. We place very special Donated in Memory/Honour of Stickers to the back of each journal so the family who receive them know they are not alone. When sending the journal/s please ensure you include a note with the name/s and/or DOB of the child/ren you would like the journal donated on behalf of.
All journals can be posted to
Yasminahs Gift Of Hope PO Box 17, Merrylands, NSW 2160
We would appreciate you sharing this event with your friends and fans
Yasminah’s Gift of Hope will celebrate its second birthday as a registered
charity today 26th May. The charity was founded to support families who experience
the miscarriage, premature birth, neonatal loss, stillbirth or infant loss of
their child or diagnosis of a congenital abnormality during pregnancy. One in
four pregnancies ends in loss and premature birth is the leading cause of
new-born deaths. In the two years since it was founded the charity has provided
over 6000 Gifts Of Hope to families and many more with support.
We are very excited that Haley Bracken has accepted
the role of Ambassador for Yasminah’s Gift of Hope. Haley has experienced
premature birth and knows the struggle that parents go through at that time.
With her help and her passion for the cause, we can reach many more families who
would otherwise have to suffer through this difficult time with little or no
support.
As the mother of Yasminah who was stillborn and of twins who were
born prematurely, my experiences have made me realise how important it is to have
something by which to remember each child and their special birth journey. The
tragedy is that some families have nothing: no photos, no record, nothing to
hold.
Yasminah's Gift of Hope Journals allows families to keep ultrasound images,
photos, cot cards, arm bands, and foot and hand prints as a cherished keepsake
of a precious life. The journals are donated to hospitals, neonatal intensive
care wards and to families struggling with loss or the worry of premature
births.
As Ambassador, Haley Bracken will help promote awareness of the high rate of
premature and stillbirths in this country and the ongoing support and
understanding available from Yasminah's Gift of Hope. 44,000 babies are admitted to neonatal and special care units across Australia each year. That is an incredible amount of families we need to reach. We will hold our first Fundraising
Ball on August 11th with Haley Bracken as MC and Ambassador, to raise funds and help us achieve our goals.
Yasminah’s Gift of Hope has achieved a lot in two short years and with
Haley Bracken as Ambassador, we intend to achieve a lot more.
Anniversaries remind us to count our blessings. I would like to personally thank all of our amazing, dedicated and passionate volunteers who pour their hearts and souls into providing Gifts Of Hope to families and continueing Yasminah's memory. Thank you seems so small compared to all you've done, but know that your kindness and support doesn't go unnoticed. It is appreciated by families who receive a Gift Of Hope and support when needed most.
On Monday 26 March 2012, Yasminah should be turning 3. Her
family should be celebrating the life she had lived. Instead, they will be
reflecting on the impact she has had on so many people’s lives.
On 26 March, we will be holding the inaugural Yasminah’s 3rd
Birthday Memorial March. The concept is simple, we want to raise awareness
about pregnancy and infant loss, stillbirth, congenital abnormalities and
premature birth. In Yasminah’s memory, we will work to educate more people
about the heart ache that so many families across the world suffer.
Through the March, we will attempt to show people some of the pages who
support the work that Yasminah’s Gift of Hope does, make them aware of why we
do the work we do, and hope that they will in turn, share this information with
their friends and family.
If it was up to us, Yasminah’s Gift of Hope wouldn’t exist. We wouldn’t be
doing the work that we do. But while families suffer through the loss of their
child, struggle through the diagnosis of a congenital abnormality, or ride the
rollercoaster of the NICU after premature birth, we will work to break the
silence, raise awareness and provide support so no family has to go through it
alone.
Each year in Australia approximately
58,000 couples experience reproductive loss:
About 55,000 experience early pregnancy loss, 1,750 babies are stillborn and
about 900 babies die in the first twenty-eight days after birth – how are you
going to make a difference?
Here is a complete run down of the details:
Start Date and Time - 10am
AEST Monday 26 March 2012 End Date and Time - 10am AEST Thursday 29 March
2012
To complete the March: 1. You must be a liker of Yasminah's Gift of Hope. 2. You need to go to the Yasminah's Gift of Hope Facebook page and go to the 'Yasminah's 3rd Birthday Memorial March Album'. 3. From the album, you need to visit each participating business in turn and 'like' their page. 4. Marchers will need to like the status about Yasminah as they visit each page. 5. Marchers must then search through the albums on each page to find the picture with a statistic or information about Yasminah on it. 7. You need to "collect" each of these statistics and enter them into the following link - https://promotion.binkd.com/Enter.aspx?id=2993 8. Once you have visited each page and liked all the statuses, you can submit your answers. 9. Whoever collects all the statistics and submits them in the required time (before 10am Thursday) will then be in the running to win the big prize. The big prize will be chosen through random.org. Everyone will be assigned a number based on when we receive their submission and this number will then decide the winner. 10. When you have completed Yasminah's 3rd Birthday Memorial March, please share this status "Today I am celebrating the life of Yasminah with Yasminah's Gift Of Hope. Will you help to break the silence? Visit Yasminah's Gift of Hope to find out how" tagging 'Yasminah's Gift Of Hope' Facebook Page.
I get asked all the time, how I can do it? How do I give so much of myself to others and listen to stories of loss. I won't lie, it is often hard to surround myself with constant heartache. Learning that another family have had their hearts broken. Knowing exactly how they are feeling. Your heart feels heavy, you feel lost and out of control. It throws your world into complete chaos and despair. It can take me back to my own pain in an instant. I am right there beside them living the moment their world crashed down around them. I have cried a river of tears with and for many families. I can wear their shoes, I feel their pain, I know what it is like to lose a child or to have a child born premature being kept alive by machines fighting for their life!
But one word always give me encouragement to keep going, to keep giving, to keep fighting for awareness and support.
Thanks
Every now and then I put up 'Inspirational Quotes' on the Facebook page as they bring me comfort and offer hope and inspiration in life. They are a shimmer of light in a dark world.
Mothers Day I received this beautiful email.
Just wanted to say thank you for helping inspire me how to remember our baby we lost through miscarriage today on Mothers Day. You had a lovely quote on your Facebook page a couple of months ago now, and I think at the time that I commented on it saying how it really struck a chord with me. Today I wrote that quote on a piece of paper and we placed a stone inside it and wrapped it with ribbon stood on the beachfront as a family (me, DH and our 2 year old daughter).
It was perfect, with the sun softly twinkling on the water we each held the small parcel, then my husband threw it into the water,right in front of the beachfront spot we often sit and have a picnic lunch. Today as Mothers Day would have been my due date for our 2nd baby, so our little ceremony was very important to me. Just wanted to say thanks again for the inspiration.
The quote was: "The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears".
Take care, Names removed for privacy
To know that I have helped make a small difference in one family's life, by giving them inspiration to acknowledge and remember their child makes my heart smile. I am truly sorry for your loss send you lots of hope, light, love and happiness for the future.
But I really need to thank you for the inspiration. Every story of loss and heartache I read gives me inspiration to keep going, giving and fighting for awareness and support for a under acknowledged heartache experienced by 1 in 4 families every day. Thank you for sharing your own story of heartache and healing with me. I share my story and my thoughts with you, so you know you are not alone......there is always hope
