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            When a baby is lost due to miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death, expecting parents may experience intense feelings, including disappointment, sorrow, and confusion. The Isaac Delisle Foundation, based in Frederick, Maryland, has been organized and will be operated to comfort parents whose lives are forever changed due to the loss of a child through miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death.  The Isaac Delisle Foundation also seeks to support parents who have chosen to continue a pregnancy despite a poor prenatal diagnosis, as well as provide funds to other organizations and institutions with similar objectives and educational, charitable and religious purposes. 

                       Stacy and Spencer Delisle were motivated to establish the Isaac Delisle Foundation, in memory of their son, Isaac, who died shortly after he was born. As a result of their own experience, Stacy and Spencer identified a powerful need to expand support to the number of bereaved families, like themselves, who have lost a child through miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death.  

                        The Isaac Delisle Foundation seeks to identify bereavement services and to help connect bereaved families with such services, as well as to personally walk alongside of bereaved families mourning the death of a child in order to provide emotional and spiritual support through one of life’s most tragic hardships.  In addition, based on Stacy and Spencer Delisle’s experience with the loss of their own son, Isaac, the Isaac Delisle Foundationmay coordinate with local area hospital staff by educating them on best care practices for parents who have experienced the loss of a young child.  Finally, the Isaac Delisle Foundation will make grants to other 501(c)(3) organizations whose charitable purposes also support bereaved parents.

                        Prenatal testing has become increasingly routine, and therefore parents now frequently receive devastating news from such testing before the birth of their child.  Some hospitals and hospices have established perinatal hospice or perinatal palliative care programs dedicated to assist families who continue their pregnancies despite a poor prenatal diagnosis that usually includes news that the family’s infant may die before or shortly after birth.  Even in areas that do not have hospitals with formalized perinatal loss programs, the Isaac Delisle Foundation seeks to support parents by creating a loving experience for the parents and their baby.

                        The Isaac Delisle Foundation responds to parents’ needs in a loving, Christian approach that seeks to bring glory to God and to further the gospel.  IDFI believes that all children are uniquely created by God with value, dignity, and worth, regardless of the length of their lives.  Psalm 139: 13-16 provides the following:  

             For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.  My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.  When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.  All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

                        The Isaac Delisle Foundation desires to come alongside of bereaved families or families who have been given a poor or fatal prenatal diagnosis in order to “Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn” as Romans 12:15 suggests.  Finally, the Isaac Delisle Foundation seeks to offer the hope of Christ to bereaved families through one of life’s most tragic and traumatic hardships:  “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”  Romans 15:13.  These core beliefs shape IDFI’s practices and approaches to raising funds and to supporting bereaved families and families who have received a poor or fatal prenatal diagnosis for their child.

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