After a loved one passes away, do you continue to celebrate their birthday? If you're a baby loss mom, then your answer is, most likely, yes.
To some, this may seem a strange concept. To a baby loss mom, it's not even a choice, you just do it. You celebrate the birth of your children, it doesn't matter if they're no longer here, they're still your children.
To celebrate Landon's birthday, each year we've done the same thing. We order balloons and hold a small balloon release at the cemetery. After the balloon release, we have a little meal at our house which includes a birthday cake. Birthday celebrations are supposed to be happy. It's different to ask others to participate in a birthday celebration for a child that is no longer here, but that's all that we have. This is the one thing that we do each year that we ask others to participate in with us. We appreciate each person that is able to celebrate the short life of our child with us and we appreciate those that are thinking of us and are unable to make it.
Day 17 is birthday. I've chosen a picture of Landon's first birthday cake. It's plain but it's perfect.
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