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Subsequently

On the hot summer night of June 7, several years ago, a woman began to labor her child, her daughter.  The father of the child lay

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Required Reading List

This is our reading selection list for our SBD training.  This is our public example, intended to give the future student doula an opportunity to consider

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Support for Home Stillbirth

Mothers who have endured pregnancy losses make up a demographic that is largely misunderstood and as a consequence, poorly supported. Within this demographic, are different,

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We Want to see You, Grayson

Heather discovered in her 16th week of pregnancy that her son, Grayson, had Anencephaly. Her providers gave her the option to terminate the pregnancy, but

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Pregnancy Loss Support Survey

Pregnancy and infant loss mothers, stillbirthday wants your feedback. May is Pregnancy Awareness Month here in the US, and so we here at stillbirthday would

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Flowers From School

written in honor of Bereaved Mother’s Day – May 6 She would be six years old. Her mother would be waking early in the morning,

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Ignoring Our Embryos

Review and Giveaway! Important note: there is no ‘one right way’ to grieve, or to interpret your own loss.  This giveaway challenge is specifically for

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Tips to Talking about It

A full term pregnancy lasts approximately 280 days. Childbirth, for a first time mother, lasts approximately 24-36 hours.  It lasts even less for subsequent births.

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Poor Prenatal Preparation

What is a pregnancy loss? “Miscarriages are labor, miscarriages are birth.  To consider them less dishonors the woman whose womb has held life, however briefly.”

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES
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We are born of love; Love is our mother.

— Rumi

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

— Rumi

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

— Ram Dass

I’ve had a baby. I’ve had an abortion.

— Jemima Kirke

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It’s the child that’s remembered.

— Freeman Dyson
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