The East Alabama Medical Center Remembrance Garden

 is a place where families who have experienced pregnancy loss or the loss of an infant can come for solace and peace. 

Remembrance Garden Memorial Bricks

Dr. Fred Craddock speaks of the importance of “place” in one his most famous sermons.  He believes it is important for each of us to have a place. Place provides us with somewhere to come and simply be.  Place is important to who we are as human beings, because it provides somewhere to create memories and to find healing.

The loss of a little one touches the essence of who we are: our dreams, our love, our life.  Many times when we have experienced this type of loss it feels as though our understanding of place is missing.  The place where we desire our little ones to be is not where they are.  We need a place to find healing and connection with them that will allow us to be family.  The Remembrance Garden located behind the hospital was created to be a place where families can come to find healing and connection.     

Each year we try to enhance the garden by adding new features.  In the same way, healing does not happen in one instance, but over time.  Over the years, we dedicated an October maple and placed a stepping stone to be the centerpieces for the garden, we planted azaleas and dedicated benches and we dedicated a sign to name the place.

Throughout the year we will be placing bricks and we would love for you to join us in remembering our little ones.