Our Beginning
Love, Camden & Friends was created by a group of moms whose lives were forever changed by the loss of a baby. While everyone’s story is different, we were all connected through Love for Lily, an organization that provides support to families in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). All of us experienced the loss of a baby either before or during our NICU stay.
It’s hard to know where or who you can turn to with the magnitude of grief and emotions that come with the loss of baby, with the birth of another, with the experience of leaving the hospital with one baby in your arms where there used to be two. Love, Camden & Friends cannot take away the agony of losing a baby although we wish we could. Our goal is to help ease, in some small way, what each of these families are experiencing. The journey towards healing is a long and arduous road full of questions, doubt, anger and sadness. It takes courage and bravery to walk down this path, and you don’t have to do it alone. We are mamas who have walked the winding path, we know all too well the pain of a baby’s death. There are so many who have come before us and there will be mamas to come after. We believe that healing begins with a community and that no family should walk alone.
Love, Camden & Friends stands with each family that walks through the fire, we offer all we can: support, love, and guidance.
“We hold our arms open because inevitably there will be more Mamas and Daddys that say goodbye too soon. Through this program, because of the work that we have done as a village Love, Camden & Friends says to any family experiencing a loss; you don’t have to do it alone.”
— Sahra Cahoon, Founding Mama