{"id":15369,"date":"2013-04-21T03:41:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T03:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stillbirthday.com\/?p=15369"},"modified":"2013-04-21T13:20:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T13:20:39","slug":"lavender-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillbirthday.com\/2013\/04\/lavender-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavender Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working for days to reach through\u00a0a situation in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>A baby boy was born still, at 22 gestation weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the baby boy’s physical form, his body, was found at an off-site laundering service.\u00a0 He gently rolled out of the hospital blankets he was tucked in.<\/p>\n<p>I have reached several local hospitals – the one that this baby was born at is published elsewhere but I tend to not think that’s the main point.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>In an enormously horrendous turn of events, while the hospital staff were undergoing policy alertness to prevent such an incident from occurring again, it has now been reported that there is a second baby, born at 19 gestation weeks, <em>whom the hospital cannot locate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>This isn’t an official “Amber Alert”.\u00a0 But, stillbirthday cries for the families of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Our color is lavender – it is pink and blue, combined.\u00a0 <em>We are all in this together.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We cry for the family who is now wondering if their baby rolling from the sheets seemed frightening, when in fact their baby is beautiful, and we long to tell them so.<\/p>\n<p>We cry for the laundering staff who lost trust in their own community hospitals and who now go to work with unease.<\/p>\n<p>We cry for the families who have given birth to stillborn babies, who now fear that their baby may be the one who is unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>We cry for the families who are pregnant, anticipating giving birth in their local hospitals, who now clutch their expanded bellies in fear, who now dread entering the hospital and who perceive the staff with suspicion, who now look with\u00a0reservation upon the\u00a0linens they are laboring on and wondering with\u00a0dissatisfaction\u00a0about the attention given to their babies.<\/p>\n<p>These are fears that are all brought on by preventable and terrible mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>More hospitals need to be comprehensively trained in <a title=\"SBD provides valuable workshops for hospital staff\" href=\"https:\/\/stillbirthday.com\/professionals-workshops\/\" target=\"_blank\">birth and bereavement support<\/a>, so that they can salvage and strengthen the trust they ought to have with their communities.<\/p>\n<p>May Minnesota find this child.\u00a0 And may they find healing.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15371\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2013\/04\/19\/second-stillborn-remains-may-have-gone-to-laundry-at-minnesota-hospital\/?test=latestnews\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15371\" title=\"Lavender Alert\" src=\"https:\/\/stillbirthday.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/dynpicwatermark\/DynPicWaterMark_ImageViewer.php?path=2013\/04\/lavenderalert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click photo for complete news story and photo source.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Thank you to the stillbirthday mothers and families who contacted me in regard to this situation many days ago, including Michelle, who first brought it to my attention.\u00a0 We truly are all in this together.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-bottom\"\n data-payload='{"align":"left","id":"15369","slug":"default","valign":"bottom","ignore":"","reference":"auto","class":"","count":"0","legendonly":"","readonly":"","score":"0","starsonly":"","best":"5","gap":"5","greet":"Rate this post","legend":"0\\\/5 - (0 votes)","size":"24","title":"Lavender Alert","width":"0","_legend":"{score}\\\/{best} - ({count} {votes})","font_factor":"1.25"}'>\n \n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; 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A baby boy was born still, at 22 gestation weeks. Later, the baby boy’s physical form, his body, was found at an off-site laundering service.\u00a0 He gently rolled out of the hospital blankets he was tucked in. 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