For three years, stillbirthday has offered support prior to, during and after birth in any trimester and with any expected or unexpected diagnosis or outcome, including NICU, and pregnancy and infant loss.
Now, we are offering the most frequently visited site pages in the form of a printed book!
“Immediate Decisions” Books Now Available
These little booklets, about 200 pages, contain the most frequently visited pages of stillbirthday:
- **Types of Loss (“what’s happening” and how it’s explained compassionately)
- **Birth Methods (“what my provider told me we need to do” and how it’s explained personally)
- **Birth Plans (“how can I still have options from within the birth method my provider and I think is best?”)
- Includes commentary and helpful healing activity and quotes pages.
We also have helpful hospital brochures
you can print and freely distribute from this page about our doulas.
About the Giveaway
This giveaway is your chance to nominate your local hospital (particularly maternity hospital), independent ultrasound facility or birthing center. Share the name of the institution and why you’d like them to win. It doesn’t matter how many books they ask for, stillbirthday will issue that facility enough books they need to get started in supporting families experiencing pregnancy and infant loss.
When families learn that their baby is not alive, this book reaching them can guide them into the validation they deserve, along with the immediate, real practical information they need for the many decisions they face. This is a wonderful way to let a freshly bereaved mother hold onto something tangible as she tries to make sense of quite possibly the darkest days of her life.
Just leave a comment below to enter, with your nomination! Each nomination will be entered into the giveaway, and this gives you the chance to express in your own words what it will mean to you to know that your nominated facility will have a way of supporting families in those most immediate moments.
One random entry will be chosen on October 10, so that the named institution can be connected before October 15, International Remembrance day.
Every location and every applicable facility can be nominated, any individual can nominate, you can nominate more than one facility, and the same facility can be nominated by more than one person!
Every effort will be made to ensure the chosen location receives their necessary starting amount, which may be any number from 10 to 100 books. If the chosen location is not reachable, the nominee will select a second location.
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If you Want Your Own Copy/ies
Right now the Immediate Decisions books are available in these versions, and include shipping:
English
German
Spanish
If you need immediate support, please do not wait for the book. Please visit the resources throughout stillbirthday for support prior to, during and after birth in any trimester. We don’t offer tracking for international orders to keep a realistic cost for you. Shipping times vary.
Please note that the versions translated from English may contain translation errors.
