Whether your loss is due to miscarriage, baby loss for medical reasons, stillbirth, infant death, or adoption, Our Babies, Our Grief welcomes you to make our support part of your grief journey. Join us for our six-week progressive healing group and our monthly check-ins.

About Our Babies, Our Grief

Our Babies, Our Grief provides much-needed support to individuals at any stage of their grieving process. Founded on principles of self-care and acceptance, the program offers a supportive and welcoming environment for participants to explore their grief, connect with others, and talk about how their losses show up in their lives.

Led by compassionate facilitators, our sessions focus on understanding, talking about and supporting our grief. We’ll work through some of our more hurtful and worrying feelings and thoughts, addressing both common experiences and those that are unique to our individual circumstances. We'll also discover ways to honour the memory of our babies and nurture the enduring love we hold for them.

We offer support through our monthly check-in sessions as well as our online or in-person six-week healing groups. All Our Babies, Our Grief programs are open to anyone who has experienced infant or pregnancy loss.

Thanks to the generosity of donors, we’re able to provide these healing spaces at no cost to participants. Find out how you can support our program here.

1 in 4 pregnancies ends in loss

Why we meet

To provide a safe, open, caring space where you can mourn your loss.

To assist you in the exploration of your grief, share experiences, and learn about compassionate grieving practices.

To gather together a supportive community to walk alongside and companion you in this journey.

To offer you some measure of comfort knowing you are not alone in your grief.

How Our Babies, Our Grief Helps

Virtual Monthly
Check-ins

This drop-in-style group meets online on the first Wednesday of each month, and is open for anyone to join, free of charge.

To receive the meeting link, simply complete the contact form below.

Drop-In Access

Virtual Six-Week Progressive Healing Group

This free-to-attend group meets online once per week for six consecutive weeks. Throughout our time together, we will explore the grieving process in an inclusive, supportive and peer-based environment.

Click below to register.

Group Registration

Connect with our Pathway Coordinator

If you have questions about our drop-in or group programs, or would just like to speak to someone one-on-one about how we can best support you, our Pathway Coordinator Jennifer Gillean is here to help.

Email her at jennifer@homehospiceassociation.com, or click below to book a virtual meeting.

Connect with Jennifer

Moonlit Memory Walk

Every October, HHA organizes the Moonlit Memory walk in honour of those we have lost. This is the perfect occasion to stand alongside the loss community and honour the little life you created and lost too soon.

This fundraising event helps us continue to offer support to the dying and their loved ones. If you would like to walk in honour of your little one, click below to find out how to join us.

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Community Partnerships

Are you a member of a community organization? If you think Our Babies, Our Grief might benefit your clients, we would love to hear from you!

We offer both our check-ins and six-week healing group sessions free and in-person to community partners.

For more details please get in touch.

In-Person Sessions

We offer in-person versions of our check-ins and six-week healing groups through our community partners.

To check for upcoming support groups in your area, please see our events page.

Upcoming Events

Meet our Facilitators

Our team is part of Home Hospice Association’s Infant & Pregnancy Loss Support community and actively supports the Pre and Perinatal Hospice Program.

Jennifer Gillean

As HHA’s Pathway Coordinator, Jen is responsible for organizing the frontline care component of our programs and partnerships. She’s also one of our dedicated facilitators leading the Our Babies, Our Grief Progressive Healing Groups for those who’ve experienced infant or pregnancy loss.   Jen is an HHA-trained Infant & Pregnancy Loss Doula and co-facilitates the free peer-based support group, Birth Trauma Ottawa. You can also find her doing great things on Instagram & TikTok @inthemomentwithjen.  

As a Certified BFW Childbirth Mentor and a Birth & Bereavement Doula, she’s drawn to working with people going through challenging fertility- and birthing-related experiences, especially having to do with grief, trauma and/or persistent pelvic pain. A lot of her work helps folks in learning self-regulation practices to ease discomfort.

Jen Thompson

Our Babies, Our Grief holds a special place in Jen's heart ever since she gave birth prematurely to 2 beautiful baby girls, Lydia Marie and Ella Ruth. Both of her babies died as a result of the premature birth, and she remembers desperately searching for support within her community and not being able to find anything. Our Babies, Our Grief was exactly what she needed back then to help her process her grief and begin to heal, which is why she is thrilled to be able to bring this kind of support to her community now.

support

Make a donation

Your donations help us to support as many people as possible who have experienced life-changing loss. From providing our core programming to helping us cover material and refreshment costs, your donations make the difference. We’re so grateful for your support - if you can donate, please do!

Host an In-Person Group

If you’re an agency or a community outreach facility with members who have experienced infant and pregnancy loss, let’s work together to bring Our Babies, Our Grief to your community. Email info@homehospiceassociation.com to talk about partnership possibilities.

Infant & Pregnancy Loss Support Certificate Program

Become an Our Babies, Our Grief Facilitator

The first step to becoming a program facilitator is to train in infant & pregnancy loss. Learn more about our Infant & Pregnancy Loss Support training program.

Infant & Pregnancy Loss Support Training Scholarship

Contribute to our Infant & Pregnancy Loss Doula Scholarship

The Our Babies, Our Grief program is run by those trained in infant & pregnancy loss. To ensure we have enough facilitators to offer this program where and when it’s most needed, we offer a scholarship for the training tuition. Learn more about the scholarship and how you can help.

Join our Moonlit Memory Walk

This is Home Hospice Association’s major annual fundraiser, providing the opportunity for people to openly mourn the loss of their loved ones, including the loss of an infant or pregnancy, and to experience the benefits of collective healing. The event also raises money to help ease the suffering of our dying and those who love them by supporting the programs and services offered by HHA. Learn more about this important event and how you can join.

How You Can Help

5000 infants are stillborn each year in Canada

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