24 | Compassionate Care and Dignified Decisions for Grieving Families | Rebekah Beresford
Join us for a conversation with Rebekah Beresford about how she found hope and healing after a traumatic experience delivering her stillborn daughter, Eliana, at a hospital.
Cradled in Hope | Podcast for Grieving Moms | Biblical Hope for Miscarriage, Stillbirth, & Infant Loss · Ashley Opliger of Bridget's Cradles
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Show Notes
Join us for a conversation with Rebekah Beresford about how she found hope and healing after a traumatic experience delivering her stillborn daughter, Eliana, at a hospital. She was not offered to hold or see her daughter and later realized that Eliana's ashes were taken as medical waste to a landfill.
Through her story of deep pain and sorrow, Rebekah shares why offering compassionate care and dignified decisions at the hospital is crucial for grieving families to have peace in their grieving journey. She shares practical advice for nurses and points them to pursue bereavement training through the organization Rachel's gift. Rebekah speaks to grieving moms about how Jesus' light can overcome the darkness of grief and trauma.
In this episode, we discussed:
- What is hospital disposition and why are babies being taken to landfills?
- The importance of bereavement training for nurses
- Why offering dignified decisions should be the standard of care at hospitals
- The victory of Jesus and how He will redeem and restore our pain
- How do we find justice in devastating experiences?
- God's presence in pain and how to feel Him when He feels far away
- How God loves us so personally and how much He loves our babies
- Rachel's gift organization and what they offer to hospitals
- Why there must be a distinction between human life and trash
- Serving others and being a voice for our babies in Heaven
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