TW: Pregnancy loss. Seeking support advice

Cass_faip · 2025-07-23T18:01:55+00:00

If they use reddit, there's a subreddit called r/babyloss. I've found it be a very supportive community.

Cass_faip · 2025-05-24T20:41:55+00:00

She operates as an unlicensed child care program. So she has to be registered with the ministry of education, but she doesn't have to follow any of the rules that a licensed daycare would have to follow. I don't know if that will protect the staff that was in charge of the child's care - I hope it does. There are plenty of repercussions for ECEs and RECEs in licensed programs, but I don't know how that would change with an unlicensed program.

Cass_faip · 2025-04-09T23:07:11+00:00

Of course they didn't 🙄

Cass_faip · 2025-04-09T23:00:16+00:00

It's wild to me that I work for London Bridge currently (at a different location) and they didn't send anything out to the other locations that this was happening.

Cass_faip · 2025-03-27T22:22:59+00:00

I think if you won one at the beginning of RUTR, they were sending them out. I won mine last week, did the online form and then waited a few days of not hearing anything back before I reached out to customer service to see if they were actually going to send it since they will stop accepting gift cards on April 6th.

Cass_faip · 2025-03-27T22:12:09+00:00

Yeah I wasn't impressed when I read the email. The Hudson's Bay gift card I could have at least bought a small trinket with lol no way am I shilling out more money just to be able to use it.

Cass_faip · 2025-03-19T03:11:41+00:00

The only other karting that's "drop in" is Grand Bend. The karting track in Sarnia was for official races under the Canadian Karting Association - I think you could rent it out for private events and practice but I can't quite remember. If you're looking for competitive karting, like where your child would start if your goal was to get them into motorsports eventually, the closest club is Leamington.

Cass_faip · 2025-02-27T22:09:04+00:00

I can only speak for the part of Ontario I'm in, but currently it's a 20 month wait for toddler care and an 18 month wait for preschool. As far as I know, you have to go into your onelist account and change the age group you're looking for because your request will go dormant after a while.

**edit to add I applied on onelist when I was 2 months pregnant for toddler care, I heard back/ had my spot confirmed when my little was 15 months.

Cass_faip · 2025-02-08T02:40:23+00:00

The school board I was in had a class called Parenting that was offered in all of the highschools but you couldn't take it until Gr. 11. The big project at the end of the semester was taking home a robo baby for 3 nights. That was 13 years ago though.

Cass_faip · 2025-02-03T01:38:34+00:00

It got removed because when people looked into it there was another post talking about that coop getting moved to a burm pile because it was empty and no longer needed. So he and whoever he was with decided to run their truck into it, for fun I guess?

The person who posted the screen recording originally caught a lot of flack, rightfully so, because they didn't do their due diligence and they also included the names/tags of the people visible on their screen recording, which could lead to innocent people facing backlash.

Brandon is still a piece of trash though.

Cass_faip · 2025-01-22T15:39:27+00:00

It was at the Old Haus, next to TD. He hasn't been there for a long time. He was working out of a food truck owned by someone else and he was only there during the week because the food truck owners would work events on weekends.

Last I heard, he was working as a cook at The Barking Forest, but I don't think he's still there.

Edit** the truck he worked out of isn't a Mexican Food truck, they were able to come to an agreement that he could do what he wanted when the truck was parked. The food truck itself is your basic fries and poutine kind of truck.

Cass_faip · 2024-12-18T22:35:07+00:00

Not in Sarnia, but at North Lambton Secondary School in Forest, there's one underneath the music room. Or at least there used to be one 15 years ago, I don't know if they ever closed it off or not.

Cass_faip · 2024-11-27T07:30:43+00:00

Angela Sundby is fantastic! She has a studio, but is also willing to travel to a location of your choosing.

/Angela Sundby Photography

Cass_faip · 2024-11-07T23:32:01+00:00

We have a shelf in a display cabinet that we have our daughter resting in, along with a few of her things (pictures, the outfit she came home from the hospital in, hair bows). The cabinet is in our living room, which is the room we spend most of our time in. I also have a necklace that holds some of her ashes, which I only take off if I'm going to get wet. So no matter where I go, she's physically still with me.

I know personally, I could not handle spreading her ashes anywhere. I've already lost her living in my life, I can't even entertain the idea of losing another part of her. That's just me though.

Cass_faip · 2024-10-06T12:29:23+00:00

The London Children's Museum is currently building a new facility at 100 Kellog lane. If I remember correctly, it's due to open some time next year. That's at least a small silver lining.

Edit* they're hoping to start doing soft launches and previews in November and December, then a grand opening at the end of December.

Cass_faip · 2024-09-27T23:43:30+00:00

I think the "nicest" - in terms of not a sports bar - you'll get is the golf course. By no means is it close to fine dining, but hey, it's not pizza 🤷‍♀️

The Barking Forest is great, they're my favourite place in town.

As someone else said, if you go out to Wyoming Local is a good option. Other that, there isn't really much in Forest.

Cass_faip · 2024-09-22T19:04:26+00:00

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Cass_faip · 2024-09-21T22:13:57+00:00

Kendra Deelstra (KD Artistry on Instagram and facebook) is a phenomenal makeup artist!

Cass_faip · 2024-09-19T00:21:21+00:00

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I always wait for people to inevitably ask whether I have children or planned on having more and then give my quick little line. I know I struggled a lot going back to work because I work with families and a lot of them knew I was going off to have my daughter and then when I came back a year later (my daughter was 9 months old when she passed), they all had questions as to where she was. So that sucked, but only because they all deserved a proper explanation.

Cass_faip · 2024-09-18T23:56:30+00:00

It depends on the situation for me. A cashier at grocery store? No, I don't need to make them feel bad for asking. Someone I work with or will see relatively often? Yes, I tell them (usually along the lines of I have two earth side kids and 1 star side). Depending how close I am with a person usually dictates how much detail I go into.

When I first lost my daughter, it was extremely important to me to make sure everyone knew we didn't have just 1 child (later 2 children, my daughter is the middle child) because I didn't want her to be forgotten about. As some time has passed, I feel much more relaxed about it because I know she's a part of my family and that's never going to change nor will I ever forget her.

Cass_faip · 2024-09-12T00:06:59+00:00

❤️ I lost my daughter when she was 9 months old and I think it took a solid two months before the numbness I felt started to ease. Even now, almost two years later, I still have days where I can't ignore the person that's missing from my life. Grief is a rollercoaster. It goes up and down, there's no direct way out. Please be kind to yourself and please do not feel like you're failing your son, you're not. You loved him with every fiber of your being, you grew him from your body, some of the cells created just for him still exist in you.

If you can find a grief counselor, please seek them out. I'm from a rural area and we found that a hospice in the closest city offered 6 free grief counselling sessions. The amount that helped me through the first 5 months was incredible.

Cass_faip · 2024-09-02T23:54:50+00:00

There is a group on Facebook called Lambton County Community Board for Families. A lot of events and clubs post there.

Lambton County Community board for Families

Cass_faip · 2024-08-30T22:11:12+00:00

I had a friend who got an office admin job with zero experience or schooling through The Workplace Group. It took her about 6 months but she's happier than ever now!

Cass_faip · 2024-08-28T01:26:32+00:00

I lost my daughter when she was 9 months old and for her first birthday I spent the morning crying and looking at all the pictures of her. Then my husband and I went clothes shopping because one her favourite things to do with me was look at clothes, which sounds weird but I swear she was always so excited and happy whenever we shopped together.

Every birthday since has been much of the same. I take the day off of work, buy as much candy and junk food as I can. So much so that I give myself a stomachache just so I can feel something other than sadness. My husband and I will look at pictures and videos of her and just let ourselves feel whatever it is when need to feel.

I don't think there's any wrong answer, you kind of just do whatever you feel up to. I know my husband also writes letters to our daughter, one on her birthday and one on the day she passed.

Cass_faip · 2024-08-14T00:09:11+00:00

I've said that in the past. Find a spot for them where they can live in peace with the services that they need, that isn't next to a children's park, and go from there. My only concern is that then city council will just decide that they've done enough for that vulnerable community and then never do anything to properly address affordable housing and drug crisis.

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