loss Archives - The Colette Louise Tisdahl Foundation

September 14, 2021

Donate to Us through online shopping and vote for us to win a grant!

If you shop online, you can shop through Goodshop and have part of your purchase to be donated to The Colette Louise Tisdahl Foundation. Also, vote […]

August 24, 2021

Expecting But Not Pregnant: Will Loss Ever Really End?

I did not expect to feel it so early in the process. I felt like a failure, just like I had felt when I miscarried Sweet […]

August 24, 2021

Expecting But Not Pregnant: Onto Plan C? Plan D?

Every time I start to plan or talk about our little LL Cool T arriving in the world, or even scarier, coming home, there is excitement […]

August 11, 2021

Expecting But Not Pregnant: Get Me Off This Rollercoaster!

When you lose a child, it is not just the loss of the child as he or she is, but the loss of the future, of […]

August 4, 2021

Simplified: Breastfeeding and Pumping: A Journey in Life, Loss, Pain, and Trauma

As the pumping sessions went on, I felt like a failure, a fraud. Not only had I not carried this child, but now I could not […]

July 16, 2021

Friday Five: 5 Tips to Handling Baby Showers

By Michelle Valiukenas, Colette’s mom, co-founder, and executive director of The Colette Louise Tisdahl Foundation When you are struggling to conceive, going through fertility treatments, […]

July 7, 2021

Graham’s Foundation: Balance of Parenting Non-Living Children

We will also struggle with the balance of still parenting and remembering our oldest child who is not physically here while also simultaneously parenting living children […]

May 11, 2021

Spring Silent Auction

Check out and bid on a variety of items in our Spring Silent Auction! All proceeds go to our financial assistance fund, helping families in crisis […]

March 26, 2021

Friday Five: 5 Things to Know About The Colette Louise Tisdahl Foundation

By Michelle Valiukenas, Co-Founder and Executive Director, The Colette Louise Tisdahl Foundation Every day, I get questions about the work that we do, whether someone qualifies […]