October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month, and this year I’m beginning it with something incredibly close to my heart.

As a mother who has experienced three miscarriage losses, I know there is a unique kind of grief in losing a baby. You grieve not only the life that was lost, but the birthdays, milestones, family photographs and entire future you had already begun imagining.

And far too often, that grief is carried quietly.

On Saturday, October 3rd, Makayla Marie Photography will host The Remembered Sessions — a day of keepsake photography created for women and families who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth or infant loss.

Every session will be offered on a pay-what-you-can basis, including $0, because finances should never determine whether someone has the opportunity to honor and remember their baby.

Each family will receive a private photography session, professionally edited keepsake images, coffee and a small remembrance gift— all within a quiet, intentional space created to simply say:

Your baby was here.
Your baby was loved.
Your baby is remembered.

Help us make this day possible.

Contributions to the Remembered Sessions Community Fund help us keep these sessions accessible while providing the photography, keepsakes, a small gift, refreshments and thoughtful details that make this experience special.

Whether you give $25, $100 or choose to support the day in a larger way, your contribution helps create a space where a grieving mother can walk through the doors — regardless of what she can afford — and know that her story and her baby matter.

Thank you for helping us remember the little lives that will always be loved.