Home Still Birth Awareness Day

What birthing options do you have, when your baby dies before birth? Is giving birth at home an option?

How could you receive support to the many questions and concerns that come with having a planned home birth loss? How would a home birth impact your farewell/funeral plans?

If you plan a live home birth and then endure the death of your infant at home, unexpectedly, how does that impact your grief journey?

Could there be feelings of blame from your family for choosing an out-of-hospital birth? What if your midwife was not prepared to support you after the death of your baby? What if negligence, betrayal or abandonment become interwoven in your experience? How do you heal after such enormous rejection? How are these factors magnified by the very relationship established in a client/midwife relationship? Can midwives support families well even in an unexpected loss? Beyond fears, how can you receive the support you deserve?

We’re going to be talking about all of these things, and more, through our newly established, December 19 – International Home Still Birth Awareness Day. Stay near to stillbirthday.com to get this important information and awareness support.

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We have our own logo for Home Still Birth {Home Birth & Bereavement} awareness: a purple birthing ball, resembling the stillbirthday purple zero. Atop the ball is a pink and blue rebozo, looped to resemble the pregnancy and infant loss awareness ribbon. You can visit our shop page to see items available for purchase that hold this Home Still Birth Awareness logo.

{photo source below: Born by Calla Evans Photography, photo- and videographer for our first birth professionals workshop in Canada!}

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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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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BECOME A DOULA!

Enroll now in the Birth & Bereavement Doula® program!

We onboard enrolled students into the program by email invitation.

After tuition, you can email heidi.faith@stillbirthday.com directly to expedite this step. Alternatively, if you prefer fb communications, you can join us in Admissions.