(Back) April Sykora, Jenny Martin, Samantha Gassett, Julie Duncan
(Front) Darla Dean & Jenny Coffey
December 2001

"Tx Moms of Tiny Angels" grew out of our own families' experiences with grief following the death of our children: Brittany Coffey, Grayson Dean, Baby Duncan, McKenna Gassett, Chase Martin, and Trevor and Blake Sykora. Our children came into our lives with much joy and hope for the future. Little did we know that their lives would be so short and leave such a lasting memory in our hearts.

We all were very much helped by an organization called "Healing Matters", which provides support to families who have experienced a loss due to miscarriage, stillbirth, and/or early infant loss. Through attending the monthly meetings, we met and become very close friends. Because the meetings were only once a month, we began meeting together on our own...we needed more interaction with people that understand what we were going through and how we were feeling. When the time came, each of us moved on to the "Pregnancy After A Loss" group, which provided support through our subsequent pregnancies. After we gave birth to our subsequent babies, we did not feel like we had a place at "Healing Matters" anymore. We wanted to continue attending the meetings, but were past focusing on our losses and were not pregnant anymore. We still continued our own get-togethers and realized then that our children were put here for a reason and we needed to do something about it. We began to think seriously about starting an additional support group and things we could provide to families experiencing the same loss.

Our Angels

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"TX Moms of Tiny Angels" is a group of women who have experienced the loss of a child due to miscarriage, stillbirth, and/or early infant death and are dedicated to:

• Providing immediate and on-going online support for those who have been affected by the loss of a child through miscarriage, stillbirth, and/or early infant death.

• Educating family and friends on the stages of the grieving process to help them better understand and support the individual(s) experiencing a loss.

• Providing emotional and educational support to bereaved parents immediately following the knowledge of/or loss of a child/pregnancy through the use of information and resource materials.

When I sat down to design our Logo, I knew that I wanted it to contain the “Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Ribbon” but also something to do with angels. (even though our little one’s aren’t actual angels, we use the term “angel” to describe just how special they are to us.) after drawing several different ideas, there our logo was. Anyone that has been in our shoes or with someone else that has will recognize that we are a Pregnancy and Infant Loss Organization just by seeing our logo.

                 I dedicate our logo to my precious little one
Grayson Ryan Dean
Budded on earth to Blossom in Heaven
11-22-99 to 12-21-99