CWN Holds First Memorial Service
In October, families and staff of the Center for Women and Newborns came together
in a special time to reflect on pregnancy and newborn loss. With the event, BWH
joins a national trend among caregivers to celebrate these lives and recognize
the tragic loss that is often publicly unacknowledged. The service featured poetry,
special music and a reading of the names of those remembered. “We were especially
pleased that at the reception afterward, so many families stayed to connect with
and support each other,” said Caryn Douma, BSN, NICU, who with Andrea Kelly,
Labor, Birth and Recovery, co-chairs the CWN Bereavement Committee. The service
was held with funding from the Hori-Callery family and the Friends of the NICU
Fund.