Volunteers are vital to our organization’s success, and we are always willing to accommodate those who are eager to help. The OC Walk To Remember organization is run primarily by volunteers. Whether you have one hour per week or one hour per year, we need your help.
During the year, the organization participates [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
Are You Interested in Sharing Your Story at Local Hospitals?
How Our Children Give Us Strength
Feeling healthy for 9 months, I thought I was experiencing a perfect pregnancy. At every doctor appointment, I was told my baby was growing normally and everything was fine. My boyfriend, Daniel and I attended CSUF and motivated one another to continue staying in school. We were anticipating our first child, Kadan Takeshi Lumbera. [...]
Would you participate?
Our director of operations Jackie suggested at the last committee meeting how wonderful it would be to do a random act of kindness in memory of a baby or babies.
For instance, if you are in line for coffee, you pay for the person’s behind you.
If the OC Walk to Remember had random act of kindness [...]
Donate Books for Kaitlyn Masumi Uyehara’s 2nd Heavenly Birthday
We will be having another book donation collection in Kaitlyn’s honor. Last year for her 1st Heavenly Birthday we collected over 60 favorite childhood books. The nurses at the Burn Center donated a book case and placed name plates on all the books last year that stated “Donated in loving memory of Kaitlyn Uyehara”. So [...]
My Beautiful Angel, Paz
My name is Amparo C. Vargas and I am the mommy to a beautiful angel, Paz.
I was so thrilled to know I was expecting, I held the excitement until my daughter and husband got home and we all had dinner. of course they were so happy, right away I asked my husband if it’s a [...]
Behind the scenes of the OC Walk to Remember
The OC Walk to Remember walk and memorial service is a once-yearly event, but throughout the year, we work to make the event a reality. It takes a team to make this happen.
Meet the people who make it possible for the OC Walk to Remember to support parents who have lost a baby or babies:
OC [...]
In God’s Hands-A Poem From My Niece
At the time my niece was 14 and she wrote this poem for my husband and I after experiencing our loss:
In God’s Hands
There was a baby
That was so unknown
It was so exciting
That baby meant so much
I can’t even imagine
How bad it feels to know
That baby won’t be here
But now you have to [...]
Remembering Joseph
My son Joseph would be five years old. He died at birth due to a rare and fatal brain abnormality. In the days following his death, I was lost. I was grief-stricken. I was lonely. I was a mom without a baby.
I wrote this poem to him right after he died.
My Baby Boy
Inside my belly [...]
A Way To Heal
I never used writing as a way to heal until I lost my son. During one session of our support group we were encouraged to write a letter to our baby. I had a really difficult time getting started but once I got past the first few sentences it was much easier. I have since [...]
Eight Days with Copeland Farley-Trisomy 18
The story of eight beautiful days with Copeland Farley.
“When I grew up I always thought that to make you into the person God wants you to be, you have to experience some kind of sorrow … I guess these are our things … now we have a longing for heaven in a [...]