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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9/10/2018 12:00:00 AM EASTERN
Updated: 9/10/2018 1:26:57 PM EASTERN
For more information, contact Paula Richards.
Randolph Health to Host Walk to Remember Event

    ASHEBORO – Randolph Health and the Maternity Services Unit will honor those lives that have been touched by a baby through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth or newborn death at the Annual Walk To Remember Event. The event will take place on Saturday, October 13, 2018, at Hospice of Randolph County starting at 11 a.m. 

    Walk To Remember is a 10-lap walk to remember the 10 tiny toes that didn’t get a chance to walk. A special program including music, prayer and a message of comfort and hope will begin the event. The walk will follow the program and will conclude with a balloon release and refreshments.

    Walk To Remember is only part of how the Maternity Services Unit helps grieving parents. Caring Through Sharing, a program initiated by Randolph Hospital nurses, continues to help parents cope with their loss.

    Nurses at Randolph Health trained at Duke Medical Center in Durham and at Moses Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro before starting Caring Through Sharing. The Caring Through Sharing program uses Walk To Remember as a way to give parents an opportunity to remember their departed infant in an uplifting environment.

    “It also helps parents see that they are not alone. There are others who have been through the grief they are feeling,” said Martica Craven, director of the Maternity Services Unit. “We realize this one event is not the answer to their grief, but we want the parents, and anyone touched by the loss of an infant, to know that it’s okay to still miss your child and it’s okay to feel what you feel.”

    Caring Through Sharing also helps parents create special boxes known as “Memory Boxes.” Memory Boxes are used to hold personal effects from the deceased child including a spoon with the year, the tape measure used to measure the baby, the outfit and blanket used on the baby, a lock of hair, a booklet of poems written by other parents who have lost an infant, the baby’s footprints in a seashell, information on grieving and telephone numbers for any questions.

    For more information on Walk To Remember or the Caring Through Sharing program, please contact the Maternity Services Unit of Randolph Health at 629-8817.