Facts/Stats on Pregnancy & Infant Loss

This section is a network of fact and statistic listings. Please utilize our “types of loss” section for a much more comprehensive support.

While searching for reasons for infant death may be part of your healing journey, it is not the entire journey and cannot prevent or undo the journey. Please, we ask you most deeply, that if you seek answers, to have support with you as you do. We do hope that if you are considering getting pregnant again, that infant death can be prevented. But we cannot guarantee or endorse any one method for that to happen. Finding inconclusive tests or finding medical reasons can bring you to a fresh level of grief, one that requires support.

Statistics

One in Two Won’t
In Twenty Minutes

Infertility

Resolve
Fertile Hope (cancer treatment)
Conceive online publication

Maternal Diagnosis

Notes: Folate, not folic acid, is recommended in pregnancy, as well as B12, not cyanocobalamin, for mothers with the above. Some studies also indicate a possible connection with newborns of mothers with the above diagnoses having tongue tie and jaundice.

Also: You might ask your provider about including MTHF

Umbilical Cord Information

Cord Complications

Miscarriage

Stillbirth

International Stillbirth Alliance
Star Legacy Foundation
ISPID
Missing Angels Bill (does your state offer a birth certificate for stillbirth, or only a death certificate?)

Medical Mistakes

AIM
James’s Project (medical mistakes in hospital)
Our Child Loss section has resources for medical provider mistakes

Pregnancy Loss Involving Twins or Multiples

CLIMB

Neonatal Death

March of Dimes

Fatal Diagnosis Resources

Fatal Diagnosis Links

Nonmedical Fertility Support

Alternative/Homeopathic Theories Resources

Diversity Keepsakes/Books
Palm Reading & Unofficial Diagnosis (“Simian Line”)

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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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