Share of the Chippewa Valley

07/07/2025

Sometimes family and friends need to be told what to say, and that’s okay too 💞

07/04/2025

On this Bereaved Parents Day, we recognize every parent missing their child today.

Of this we are certain, nothing, not even death, can diminish a parent's love.

07/02/2025

This month, we honor every parent who carries the deep grief of losing a child. Whether your loss was recent or many years ago, your pain is real, your love is eternal, and your child is never forgotten.

💛 You are not alone.
Your grief is valid. Your love is forever. Your child’s life, however brief, has left a beautiful mark on this world.

🦋 May you feel comfort, hope, and gentle reminders this month that your heart and your child always remembered.

– Bella Joy Foundation

06/15/2025

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A Father’s grief is often overlooked. Often, friends, family, and caregivers focus on the moms, and dads then grieve quietly as they support their partner or help maintain the household responsibilities. But men grieve too, and they deserve the same support and understanding.
If you are a bereaved dad, know that we are thinking of you and your baby today. Reach out to us anytime. Your grief matters. Your baby matters.

06/14/2025

06/06/2025

Tomorrow is our Share Memorial and Burial service at Sacred Heart Cemetery in Eau Claire. It is supposed to be a beautiful day for our service. We are so honored and humbled to serve our families in this way. We have set up our pinwheels and tulips at all the babies headstones there now, remembering and honoring all our little ones 🤍

05/16/2025

This isn’t talked about enough. Loosing our babies is traumatic, truly traumatic. And this trauma can persist for years after.

It can present itself as anxiety and depression (as examples), and the stress can wreak havoc on our physical bodies as well.

We begin to talk about how this trauma looks in our lives in our support group. But creating awareness and letting you know, you’re not alone in this - is so important.

05/13/2025

Share of the Chippewa Valley is so honored to be able to host our annual memorial and burial service.

In memory and recognition of those who have experienced a miscarriage or infant loss, you and your extended family are welcome to attend, June 7th at 1:00 p.m.

For some families, this is the actual burial of their tiny baby that was born less than 20 weeks gestation 💗 and for many it is a symbolic service of remembrance.

We honor and recognize these tiny little lives that impact us so deeply. These babies and their family deserve a proper burial and closure that a funeral can provide.

We also want families to know, if you miscarried at home and would like baby included in our burial, please contact us. We are happy to make that possible.

We thank Sacred Heart Parish and their cemetery for providing this space and funds to make this free for Share and our families. We thank Smith Funeral Chapel & Eau Claire Memorial Crematory for assisting us with the arrangements. Thank you to OakLeaf Surgical Hospital and Mayo Clinic in Eau Claire, WI as well as Black River Memorial Hospital in Black River Falls for allowing us to serve your families. We also thank the volunteers and musicians who donate their time and talent to Share to make our services more memorable.

For more information visit: https://sharechippewavalley.squarespace.com/memorial

05/11/2025

Wrapping you in our hearts today and always 💓.

You are a Mother. Then, Now, & Forever.

For our mommas who grieve. Don’t be afraid to text them Happy Mother’s Day, give them flowers, and say their baby’s name. Not acknowledging their sweet baby’s life is more painful than celebrating their life gently with them.

05/06/2025

Join us for our first of our four night sessions - our May Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Group TONIGHT!
*Please see the google form link at the bottom to register. We send packets in the mail to begin working through. And helps us confirm the amount coming each week.
🤍 Together we work through a journal and reflect on those hard questions we always are asking when we lose our babies.
🦋 We touch on why we keep running the same thoughts in our head over and over, how do we grieve, understanding how our bodies respond to trauma, how to recognize it, how to heal, and where we can find hope.
🗓May 6, 13, 20, & 27
⏰ 6:30-7:30 pm
📍 LE Phillips Memorial Library in Eau Claire, WI; room #106
💻 Microsoft Teams (online video) option is available, must register to receive link.
*Please note due to the sensitive nature of what we discuss, this is an adult only group. We ask that childcare be provided for children, and not be on camera during video calls.
Please register here:
https://forms.gle/e57zDmT3urzFyGzQ9

05/04/2025

Our local Bereaved Mother’s Group with the Bella Joy Foundation remembering their babies yesterday. 💞 Follow them for details on their next group in June!

11/09/2024

Share of the Chippewa Valley originated from HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital from their Women & Infant's floor. The hospital foundation provided the funds that Share needed to serve our community and others affected by pregnancy and infant loss. Not only that, The Healing Place was where many came to help receive tools and comfort to heal from their grief.

Since the hospital closures, HSHS is now conducting this Grief Research Project to help see where they can see gaps in the community of grief support or how to support services already in place.

💜Your insights will directly influence how a $4.8 million endowment from HSHS to the Eau Claire Community Fund will be granted annually into perpetuity.

💙Your input will be used to determine how almost $200,000 in funding annually will be used to fill gaps and meet the real needs for grief support and holistic healing services.

🩷For those who have been affected by grief, provide grief services, and overall have recommendations on how to help those who have grief: this survey is for you!

If you could spare a little time, this is huge in continuing support services like Share of the Chippewa Valley. Thank you! Survey ends 11/13/24.

https://uweauclaire.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cViw6iaMqmu98Jo