<---This is my COMPLETE JOY face, which is exactly how I feel about going on a walk, eating pancakes, and raising $$$ for Empty Arms with you all! Are you desperate to be outside-- to move your body and soak up some vitamin D after winter? Do you just love the sweet sweet taste of maple syrup? Join us!!!
Here are just a few of the totally awesome and deeply necessary things we do at Empty Arms, which your registration and/or donation will fund:
1. Educate medical professionals so they can provide thoughtful, competent medical & emotional care for bereaved families
2. Run 4 monthly support groups for parents who experience miscarriage, stillbirth, and early infant loss
3. Train peer companions to provide one-on-one support at hospitals and beyond for newly bereaved families.
4. Distribute care packages for families, with hand written notes from other bereaved parents, a mug, tea, rice heat packs, and rose quartz.
Syrup Stampede
Syrup Stampede will be a fun, family friendly 5k run/walk event. Donations and raised funds will benefit Empty Arms, an organization geared toward helping families of the Pioneer Valley grieve the loss of a pregnancy or infant. The Empty Arms Community Members not only hope to raise awareness of this awesome organization but also hope to demonstrate our want and desire to integrate our losses into poistive events surrounding the memories of our babies.
Empty Arms Bereavement Support serves members of the Western Mass community whose babies have died at any time during pregnancy or early infancy. We look to provide and create a compassionate community, fostering connections, validation, and resources to grieving parents.