Tag: Hope
Mama Bear Mentor: Raquel Massey
November 19, 2025Our Mama Bear Care team is growing! While our mission is always to empower mamas to embrace their Mama Bear role, equipping them to advocate for their special babies with fierce love and tender care, we are excited to partner with our veteran mama bears who have fought hard and loved hard who are going to […]
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Mama Bear Mentor: Nyssa Hasty
November 17, 2025Within Mama Bear Care, we have a team who are uplifting, encouraging, and open to new ways to support our precious mama bears. Since our mission is to empower mamas to embrace their Mama Bear role, equipping them to advocate for their special babies with fierce love and tender care, Beverly (our Founder and CEO) realized […]
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Mama Bear Mentor: Lori Edwards
November 14, 2025One of our Mama Bear Mentors, Lori Edwards, has joined Mama Bear Care to come alongside mamas who receive a life-limiting prenatal diagnosis.
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Doula Support During a Difficult Diagnosis
March 4, 2024Traci Weaver provides doula support for parents who receive a life-limiting prenatal diagnosis.
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Our Counselors: Allen and Patricia Cooke
February 23, 2024Our counselors, Allen and Patricia Cooke, have joined our mission at Verity’s Village to support parents who receive a life-limiting prenatal diagnosis by offering emotional and mental support.
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What I Would Have Missed: Part 4
February 19, 2024When parents join our Verity’s Village community, they have often received a “fatal fetal diagnosis” according to their doctors. At Verity’s Village, we choose the phrase “life-limiting” prenatal diagnosis, as we know and our parents know that their babies have a time to be with their parents however long that might be. In the post […]
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What I Would Have Missed: Part 3
January 17, 2024When parents join our Verity’s Village community, they have often received a “fatal prenatal diagnosis” according to their doctors. At Verity’s Village, we choose the phrase “life-limiting” prenatal diagnosis, as we know and our parents know that their babies have a time to be with their parents however long that might be. In the post […]
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What I Would Have Missed: Part 2
December 12, 2023When we shared “What I Would Have Missed: Part 1,” we had many people respond to the love expressed by our parents for their babies with a diagnosis. A life-limiting prenatal diagnosis can seem so overwhelming to parents, friends, family, and others connected to mom and dad, and we can forget to focus on the […]
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What I Would Have Missed: Part 1
November 15, 2023When a parent is given a life-limiting prenatal diagnosis for their baby, we can mistakenly focus on missing out on the pain and avoiding the grief. No matter what decision is made, grief is unavoidable, but the focus on what a parent will actually miss if they terminate their pregnancy can be life saving: life […]
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Christi’s Story: “What if your baby lives?”
October 20, 2023Many of our stories come from our Verity’s Village online community, but the presence of the grander community affected by a prenatal diagnosis is larger than our online community. Each of us are in cities with others who have been given a diagnosis or are caring for a child who received a diagnosis. In my […]
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