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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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES
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You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition—what is one to do? . . .
Personally, I disagree with their ideas . . .

— Charlotte, The Yellow Wallpaper

What a beautiful mess she left behind.

— Franchesca Cox

Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?

— Jesus

Zeroes count.

— stillbirthday
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