WE ARE HERE TO HELP

First, we want to acknowledge how hard it might have been to click Our Angel Babies. If you're like us, your baby is just your baby. To you, they may or may not be an angel, but they are a very loved, cherished, wished for child that you miss more than any human should have to understand. We want to take a moment to honor and validate this and meet you exactly where you are. You may not be ready to "celebrate" your baby and that's ok. You may never be ready to "celebrate". Maybe, the word honor is more fitting for you. Maybe no word will ever be fitting. We are here to help you love on your child through celebrating their life, through community and validating your pain, and through healing together. We hope you'll let us join you.

How we can help…

01. Helping you celebrate

Where there is grief, there is love. One of the hardest parts of being a grieving parent is experiencing your baby’s first birthday without them there. It is devastating and something no parent should have to do, but we believe joy and grief can exist together. We can tell you from experience, that your child’s birthday can be beautiful, healing, and filled with love. It can feel like parenting in an active way and connect you to your baby in every way you needed. It would be our greatest honor to be a part of your child’s big day.

We are here to coordinate, personalize your day, and make your celebration come to life. This could be anything from a big birthday bash that is everything your Pinterest board could dream of or honoring them with sparklers and a getaway to the mountains. Big or small, we would love to be a part of it. Today is about you and your baby and how you want to love, honor, and celebrate your perfect child. We understand the weight of this day and will bring love to every detail..

After you contact us to celebrate/honor your child, we will reach out and first confirm whether we have availability and funds to celebrate your baby. We will then coordinate a time to hop on a call to understand your vision and hopes. Depending on what you're wanting, we might go through a creative process using a shared pinterest board and create a vision board for you. We will set a budget and expectations and then get to planning.
Our services cost you nothing. If you want to spend more money outside of what we will be covering to celebrate your baby, then that's wonderful.

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02. Community

Community is everything. When we think about our daughter, it’s impossible to detach the part our Trisomy community has played in our life and her life. The shared experience of losing a child is something no one can understand, except another loss mom/dad. At The Stella Effect, our bonds to each other through our babies, brings us validation, a shared passion for advocacy, and never feeling alone. We strive to build a space where everyone can feel without shame, grieve without judgement, and learn from each other. We hope that you will join us and be a part of our community online, where we can love, grieve, and hope for the future together.

Join our Facebook group and Instagram for resources, advocacy, education, and to hear our baby's stories.

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03. Grief Retreats

/// coming 2024 ///

We have a dream of making a grief retreat for our bereaved parents a reality in 2024-2025. We can’t think of a better way to grieve, than to do it with other parents who have been through the same pain that no one else can understand. Chelsea, the co-founder of The Stella Effect, has her masters in counseling, and has firsthand experienced the growth and healing power of therapy from a licensed therapist specializing in child loss. We envision an intimate group of women or men, waking up with sunrise yoga, individual and group therapy sessions, connecting and bonding through our shared love and loss of our babies, and ending the day with meditation with a sunset as our background. We know no one wants to be in the position of going to a grief retreat, but we truly believe that our shared love for our babies can bring people together and that healing together can transform our lives.