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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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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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More Than a Period

The smallest person ever to be born was just about the size of a period at the end of a sentance  Amazing, isn’t it?  And

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Casting Out Demons

As a new loss mom, I faced many opinions from others, about what my loss meant, how I could have prevented it, how I couldn’t

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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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