Stillbirthdays

The day your baby is born is very special.  It is a day that you remember, year after year.  While it brings pain and longing, it can also bring a special connection to the reality that you are a mother.

Whether your baby died days before or days after his or her birth, the stillbirthday is a special day.

 

Share your special remembrance event ideas here.

These are some ideas that are celebrated on the specific special stillbirthday:

More personal:

  • Stillbirthday cake.
  • Love Letter to your baby.
  • Floral petals release into a stream.

More collective/group:

  • Fundraiser event.
  • Community service project.
  • Memorial meal.

Here are some additional ways you might consider honoring your baby’s stillbirthday.

 

 

Share your special stillbirthday(s) here.

Just leave a comment, and if you have a stillbirthday URL for your baby’s story, you can include that, too.

 

ECM = estimated conception month

DDD = day death determined (may be the day you learned your baby was not alive)

SBD = day baby was born

EDD = estimated due date

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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
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