Memorials

TimesInfinity9

Tell me what you do/have done to remember your baby...jewelery, planting a tree/flowers, memorial services, tattoo, certain activities on anniversaries etc.

 I ordered a necklace on etsy that should be here any day and I can't wait to have something to carry with me every day now that I don't carry my baby with me anymore. My necklace has an infinity symbol (because I will always remember)and the September birthstone on it which would have been baby's birthstone.  I wanted something that had meaning to me but wouldn't be obvious to other people. That way if they say something about the necklace I can choose whether to tell them the meaning behind it or not, depending on who they are.

PerkyErky

I have a tattoo on my wrist that says "family" and all our initials, I need to add Alice's A to the mix and I think I will also get a memorial tattoo...probably a tree with petals/leaves blowing away. I also bought aquamarine stud earrings I wear everyday. Alice was born on 03/27/13 and aquamarine is the birthstone. Like you said, it is my way of carrying her with me everyday now that she is gone. My DH wears a tie tack pretty regularly so I am thinking of getting him one with an aquamarine in it for father's day.

fluttergirlmoonchild79

***SIGGY WARNING***

 

DH and I both have tattoos of Corbin's hand and footprint along with his name and dates.  DH's is on his right calf and mine is on my life side under my ribcage.  It's where I felt the most pokes and kicks while carrying him.  DH and I both received necklaces from my mom with Corbin's hand and footprint.  I have a right had Opal ring which is his birthstone (I say the ring on my left hand belongs to the person who holds my life and the one the right hand holds my heart).  We recently added a special "Corbin area" to our backyard.  We have a bench that we're going to get a little plaque for along with some stepping stones with phrases on them and a weeping angel.  I recently planted 2 bleeding heart plants.  On his birthday we sang happy birthday, released balloons with messages on them and ate chocolate cupcakes

Noethola

I have a necklace with her footprints on it that I where everyday. We also have a small area in our house that is Elsie's. While we have hardly changed her room, this is a small table in our living room with her pictures on it. 

We also named our start-up small business after her.  

My DH is a track and cross country coach. His girls and their families planted a tree in a park they often practice in.  

meli1025

I have two necklaces that were given as gifts.  One of them says "In memory of my angel" with her name engraved on the back. It also has a small pearl that represents a tear drop and an angel wing. The other one says "I carry your heart with me, I carry it in my heart".  In the middle of the circle is a heart with her name on it.  I also have an "A" initial on the same necklace that I wear with DS's "J", along with both of their birthstones.  I also have an engraved garden stone in front of my house under a beautiful tree with a few tulips and daffodils planted around it.  It says "If love alone could've spared you, you would've lived forever.  Ava Marie, 10/4/12"  We actually used that as her temporary marker at the cemetery until her headstone came in. 

On her due date we did a balloon release at the cemetery.  I visit her grave every month on the 4th and bring her flowers (went today before work).  I still go in between but I make sure I always go on the 4th with flowers. 

There's a section in my backyard that needs some new plantings so I've been considering planting flowering bushes in her honor and moving the garden stone back there. 

 

amandager99

As of now I know of two things I'll be doing. The first is a tattoo of his tiny little feet on my wrist, no bigger or smaller than when he was born. The second is a ring with his birthstone. DH and I had already talked about rings to match my wedding band with each kids birthstone. I just didn't think it would be May.

shandorfml2

I have a memorial tattoo of a butterfly for her. We have pictures of her around. Her room is unchanged. We did a balloon release at her burial. I got a beach butterfly and her name written on the beach at sunset by Carly Marie. I want to get a memorial necklace, and aquamarine jewelery (her birthstone). I write to her, and talk to her all the time. We are participating in a remembrance walk in October for her. I am finishing her baby book, and have saved all her cards and mementos from the hospital as well as our baby showers.

angelsnight

I have a tattoo of her footprint, her name and birthdate on my ankle.  The flowers my dad got for her service had a beautiful angel statue in the middle, so we kept it and we plan to make a memorial garden in the backyard and the angel will be the focal point.  On what would have been my due date, we've invited close family and friends to the cemetery to a balloon release.  We'll write messages on them to her and send them off to Heaven.

SoonaBailey

At Felicity's grave sight we have planted some flowers and have an angel on a pillar, a birdbath and pretty mosaic feeder and we are going to plant a tree and have a fence with an arch and climbing roses. We also have a lot of stuff to remember her like we got a mold of her feet and hands, a clip of her hair, foot prints, and a TON of pictures. people have given us things such as a locket full of appropriate charms, all kind of angles, books, and a baby book designed for stillborns. I kept a pregnancy journal the whole time I was pregnant even before I took the hpt and I have been writing my thoughts in it still. Yesterday I found a website called Maura's Mission the will make a block for each angel baby for free and I'm getting one of those... Every Monday (the day lissy was born) I go to her grave and try to add something to her "garden". I can't remember right now if there was anything else but I'm trying all the time to remember her and do things for her, I might not be able to hold her but she's still my baby girl!

blackbird818

I'm going to get a ring to wear on my right pinky finger as a reminder that my LO is always with me. I haven't gotten a lot of support from the few people I've mentioned it to (( I've come to find out people on the outside just don't understand...even DH in some ways )) but it's something I want to do & it'll be a comfort to me. So screw everybody else & THEIR OPINIONS!!