Walk to Remember to go virtual Oct. 11
Beebe Healthcare Perinatal Loss Support Services will host the 16th Annual Walk to Remember for 2020 Sunday, Oct. 11, as a virtual event.
The Walk to Remember is held annually as a means to recognize pregnancy loss, allowing parents, their friends and families, and other supporters an opportunity to remember babies who have died during pregnancy or after birth.
Beebe’s event is the only Walk to Remember held in Delaware to commemorate pregnancy and infant loss. Similar walks take place nationwide each fall in honor of October’s designation as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.
This year’s event will be held throughout the weekend of Oct. 9-11. Participants are asked to preregister online to receive a T-shirt while supplies last. Donations are also being accepted to support the Walk to Remember Fund via Beebe Medical Foundation. Information for both is available at www.beebehealthcare.org/walk-remember-2020.
Participants can view a video presentation on the walk webpage or on Beebe’s Facebook page. View an online memorial event featuring a welcome address, prayer, reading of infant names, explanation of the meaning of a butterfly release, and concluding with a reading of the “Walk to Remember” poem. Following the reading of the poem, family members and supporters are invited to walk in their neighborhood or a place of their choosing to remember their baby.
Parents who wish to have the names of their infant(s) included in the video program will need to contact Barb Rogers at the Margaret H. Rollins School of Nursing by Wednesday, Oct. 7; call Rogers at 302-645-5469. People may also fill out the online form at www.beebehealthcare.org/walk-remember-2020.
For more information about the walk, to register, or to provide contributions, contact Rogers or Terri Wyatt at Margaret H. Rollins School of Nursing at 302-645-3251 or visit beebehealthcare.org/walk-to-remember.
