Get Real Girls on FM 107.1

Celebrating a Different Kind of Mom, Part 1

Featuring: Guest host Pilar Gerasimo

Experience Life editor in chief Pilar Gerasimo guest hosts on FM 107.1's Get Real Girls with Colleen Lindstrom and Joan Steffend. In honor of Mother's Day, they celebrate mothers of all kinds - both those with children and those who have lost a child through miscarriage or death. Pilar and Colleen open up about their own experiences of loss, and then talk with Cathi Lammert, the executive director of SHARE, a nonprofit organization that supports those who are are touched by the tragic death of a baby. Cathi addresses the importance of honoring parents who have lost children on holidays like Mother's and Father's Day, and explains how her organization is working to support bereaved parents. Find out more at www.nationalshareoffice.com.

The Get Real Girls later talk with Sandy Puc, co-founder of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (NILMDTS), a nonprofit organization that provides thousands of families of babies who are stillborn or are at risk of dying as newborns with free professional portraits of their child. Founded in April 2005, NILMDTS helps families honor and cherish their babies, and preserve their memory in images. NILMDTS has a network of more than 5,000 volunteer photographers across the United States and 19 international countries. Learn more at www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org. (Part 1 of 2)

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