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This blog space is created to help parents and others who were touched by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome any other infant/children death. I am Yolanda, founder of the Josephine DeMello SIDS Foundation (www.endsids.org). I lost my daughter Josephine to SIDS last March 10, 2008. There is not a day that I do not miss my baby girl. Life was never the same after the tragedy. There is no such thing as "new normal" that we are forced to live or adapt. I call it "new difficult." It is difficult to get up every morning and face reality that your baby is not there to hold or care. My arms will always be empty and will never be filled. Although I may have future children and I have a beautiful 5 year old daughter, the emptiness in these arms will never be filled.

I encourage other parents, friends and families to discuss their feelings and concerns to let each other know that we are not alone on this journey through grief. We are here to support each other and understand each other. No one understand how to lose a child unless one is been there. Some one once said.."A man who loses a wife is a widower, a woman who loses a husband is a widow, a child who loses its parents is an orphan, but a parent who loses a child is unexplainabe because there is no words to describe that pain."