Momentos {& Cultural Keepsakes}

These are gift ideas and tangible momentos for you to keep, as well as cultural/faith diversity items that pertain to subjects within birth and bereavement.

Please visit our Farewell Celebrations for even more ideas, including things like burial planning, and visit our Connections link for other ways you can get involved in honor of your baby.

We also have a momento list for older babies.

Just click here to see the momento list for older babies as well.

• place a birth and/or death announcement in your local newspaper so that you can keep that for your own keepsake
• create a birth or a death announcement (or both) in a postcard or other format
• you may like to make your own keepsake craft
• purchase a stillbirthday cake
• Find your baby’s birth verse for the day he or she was born
• blog about your story or in other ways reach out and share your experience
• spread the word offers a “Blog Button” and other ways to help others
• marking your baby’s name in or on something significant or special
• Sufficient Grace Ministries offers very small infant outfits (under the shop category)
• unofficial burial (including baby clothing and casket information)
• Miscarriage Blankets
• Special ways of using your photos including a photo reel, which may be special to siblings
• Embroidered Hankies
• The Comfort Company (marble pieces, windchimes)
• name a star after your baby
• Ethan’s Flame
• create a floating memorial urn
• light a floating lantern
• Molly Bears
• Keepsake Bears
• Heartbeat Bears (and other animals)
• create art (here’s a helpful site) as a special momento.  If you’d like stillbirthday to feature your art, please visit our Beyond Words section.
• consider a Memory Painting by Cady or pregnancy and infant loss art by Beyond Words Designs or sketching by Stillborn Memorial Portraits
• consider a photo slide video honor your baby
• incorporate your baby’s birthstone into something
• special remembrance jewelry (see our list!)
• memorial frames
• Christmas ornaments
• Personalized Sleeping Baby (ornaments and more)
• additional keepsakes and comfort items
• Rock to Sleep paper designs
• making an unofficial Certificate of Birth  as a momento
• attend a Stillbirthday Mothers Workshop

Special items that either represent
or resemble your baby

• God’s Little Ones
• The Midnight Orange
• My Tangible Peace
• Heaven’s Tiny Angels
• Personalized Custom Creations

Especially Regarding Pictures

• In many different situations, photographs simply aren’t possible.  You can visit our Farewell Celebrations page for options you might include in your journey that can be healing that can be possible alternatives to photographs.
• How to Photograph a Stillborn Baby
• Portraits by Dana
• Stillborn Memorial Portraits
• Forensic Art (age progression sketches)
• “Make Me Baby” (submit a photo of both parents, and a computer program will generate an image of a baby)
• ACPCG to take photographs
• Photo Restoration
• Photo Restoration
• photo reel
• Ultrasound Art

Especially for Fathers

• Birth Verse (bracelets and keyrings)
• The jewelry links at our Farewell Celebrations section has jewelry ideas that can be converted to pendants, key chains, or “dog tag” style items, that can include either the name of the baby or the baby’s birth stone.
• A special tattoo.
• Naming a star after your baby, and you could buy him a telescope as well.
• A special stone for the yard or as a keepsake in the house: Treasure Beans or Living Rocks or Alphabet Pebbles.
• Baby Boards by Misty are durable and simple
• Stillbirthday Fathers may be uncomfortable with the idea of keeping a momento of the baby, but would like to honor his baby in some way.  Go to our online shop, where you can access things like our logo coffee mugs and HeBrews Coffee.  You can order a bag of coffee for him to enjoy, and add the “contribute to stillbirthday” option, which adds $1 to your order, to help support stillbirthday.

Especially for Siblings

• Information and support for older siblings.
• Child’s Own Studio
• Baby be Blessed dolls
• Special ways of using your photos including a photo reel, which may be special to siblings

Special items specific to unique culture, faith or other traditions:

Please visit our Long Term Healing for support specific to various diversity groups.

• Our Bible Study section is a unique and beautiful collection written by bereaved Christian mothers
• Our Mothers Workshops feature a “Mother Roasting” that some cultures believe can positively impact both fertility and postpartum healing
• Our SBD Chaplains can officiate funerals, including “green/natural” funerals
• Fertility Jewelry by LaBelle Dame
• Baha’i Burial Jewelry
• Earth Craft Serenity has pagan spells
• German angel blessing charm

Books

• There is a link in the SBD Shop for a free Bible
• Grandmothers Fertility Wisdom
• Spirit Babies
• Conscious Conception
• (more books)

 “If you are very still and your eyes are shut you will feel someone close to you and it’s your guardian angel.” German Angel Blessing

Resources by Location:

• Project Sweet Peas – (US)
• Lil Angels Hankies – (US)
• Upon Butterfly Wings – blankets and clothing (UK)
• Little Baby & Co – keepsake boxes (UK)
• Teeny Tears diapers – (global)
• Molly Bears – (global)
• A Heart to Hold – (global)

More Resources:

Please visit our Farewell Celebrations for even more ideas of things you can do and ways you can encourage others.