the spencer julius landau warrior endowment fund , established by the couple for the pediatric intensive care unit at the montreal children’s hospital, has raised more than $150,000. proceeds of a special spencer challah — a sweet streusel loaf — being baked this month at challahland, where deskin-landau is a partner, are going to the fund.
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pregnancy and infant loss remembrance day, observed oct. 15 in canada and elsewhere, is marked increasingly by events like candle-lighting vigils and memorial walks. in montreal, there will be a walk of light in maisonneuve park on saturday starting at 5:30 p.m., and sirota is organizing a virtual pregnancy and infant loss memorial on zoom, beginning at 8 p.m. friday. participants, including deskin-landau and landau, are asked to bring a memento such as a photo or a footprint, and a candle to light.
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society often doesn’t recognize perinatal loss because it makes people uncomfortable and because people don’t always value these young lives as they do lives lived more fully, sirota said. people say “ ridiculous and hurtful ” things to parents, she added, like “at least you didn’t get to know the baby” or “at least you have other children.”
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