Babies & Children's Memorial Garden

“A luminous light remains...where a beautiful soul has passed.” -Antoine Boreva

The loss of a child cannot be put into words that anyone could possibly express. Whether it is a perinatal loss or the death of an older child, no one should have to experience this journey alone. The Stony Brook Babies and Children’s Support Program is here to help make this awful journey a tiny bit easier for you and your family.

Across the street from the Pediatric Emergency Room, please visit our Babies and Children’s Memorial Garden. This Garden was designed to offer a place of peace and solace for grieving families, and as a beautiful tribute to the lives of their children. The Garden is lined with an engraved brick pathway with over 500 bricks dedicated to the lives of children that were lost all too soon.

Please find below some resources that we think may be helpful to you:

• Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
• Little Angel Fund
• March of Dimes
• Compassionate Friends

Memorial Bricks

Memorial Bricks can be purchased to honor the memory of a baby or child who has passed. They are placed in the garden bi-annually in the spring and the fall. Bricks can hold up to three lines each with thirteen characters per line.

Please click the link below to download a Brick Order Form and mail it to:
Babies & Children’s Memorial Garden
c/o Stony Brook Children’s Hospital Administration 
100 Nicolls Road Stony Brook, NY 11790-8500

Download a Memorial Brick Form.

Support Groups

Catholic Cemeteries
Please find a list of Bereavement Support Groups throughout Suffolk County located under the Bereavement section of the Catholic Cemeteries website.

Little Angel Fund
The Little Angel Fund consists of a group of parents helping parents through a difficult time in their lives. Our purpose is to make life a little easier and more comfortable for the premature and seriously ill infants and their families, while they are in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, after they graduate from the NICU and to act as a source of help and support for the bereaved. We are dedicated to supporting, educating and caring throughout the NICU experience. Visit www.littleangelfund.org.

Living In Love
A program designed to minimize the physical, emotional, psychological psychological pain and suffering of children diagnosed with cancer or blood disorders and their families through palliative, end-of-life and bereavement care.