Stillbirth
I don’t think you can prepare for a stillbirth - to prepare would be to give up hope, to imagine the worst - Megan Scott
image by: Mary-Alice & Friends 5K for Stillbirth Research and Awareness
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Stillbirth Through The Eyes Of A Child
I’m Cora, and my sister is Maisie. We are twins and we were born on the 19th of January 2012. I’m the older twin by a whole 30 seconds and boy, do I know it! Mummy and daddy aren’t together, but they are friends and they get on really well, especially for me and Maisie.
Mummy tells us all the time that we are her life. That we are her strength. That we are her reason for laughing when she doesn’t even feel like smiling anymore. I don’t think mummy would be getting through this without the cuddles and kisses from me and Maisie.
It was hard, learning that my baby brother wasn’t coming home from the hospitals with my mummy. I don’t like hospitals anymore. I’m only four years old.…
Resources
New Programs Help Parents Cope With Stillbirth and Infant Death
Now, as researchers learn more about the traumatic effects of such deaths on families, more hospitals are creating programs to help them cope. So-called perinatal-loss coordinators train staff to provide compassionate care and guidance for both practical and emotional issues.
Stillborn Still Loved: A Stillbirth Story
Eight years ago today, we delivered our son stillborn at 25 weeks and 2 days pregnant. The days, weeks and months that followed were the most difficult of my life.
After a Stillbirth, a Silent Delivery Room
Dr. Eleni Michailidis, 38, gave birth to a stillborn son, Alexander, in February. Stillbirth is not uncommon in the United States, affecting 1 in 160 pregnancies, but the experience is rarely discussed. Dr. Michailidis’s narrative has been condensed and edited for space and clarity.
After a Stillbirth, Tests Can Help Pinpoint the Cause
Some 26,000 women in the United States give birth to a stillborn child each year. It’s a harrowing experience for parents, and many eventually want to know what went wrong, in part to avoid going through a similar experience in the future. But in the days after delivery, when tests to search for a cause must be conducted, doctors are often hesitant to suggest them, and grief-stricken parents often reluctant to permit them.
Disadvantage doubles chance of stillbirth
Substandard medical care contributes to between 20 and 30 per cent of stillbirths across the 49 countries. Almost all stillbirths across the world - 98 per cent - occur in developing countries.
Stillbirth: Your Stories
Few families are prepared when a baby dies prior to delivery. Here, parents who have navigated this difficult experience shared their insights.
Stillbirths Now Outnumber Deaths Among Infants, Study Finds
For the first time, stillbirths have slightly outnumbered deaths among infants before their first birthdays, a new report has found, ending a long period in which infant deaths were higher.
The Stillbirth Story of Baby Kendall
I have finally written my birth story… Although it has been 30 years, it is the very first time I have done this. It was really a good experience. This happened so many years ago that I have forgotten and healed from many of the painful emotions I had. This made it much more difficult to recall them and describe on paper.
We Need to Talk About Stillbirth
Stillbirth is ten times more common than cot death, yet it's often not talked about. It remains something of a taboo. Every day in the UK, nine babies are stillborn. For almost a third, no cause of death is found.
When A Baby Dies
Unbeknownst to many, stillbirths cause approximately 24,000 deaths a year in the United States resulting in approximately 2000 babies dying each month - more than deaths resulting from SIDS and prematurity combined. Even with numbers like these, stillbirth remains one of the most understudied and underfunded public health issues today.
Why don't people talk more about stillbirths?
Stillbirth - the death of a baby after 24 weeks of pregnancy or during birth - is not common in the UK. But it is more common than many people think.
The Unique Grief of Losing Your First Born to Stillbirth
My first born was stillborn at full term. We went to the hospital expecting to give birth to our baby girl who was four days overdue and who we felt move that evening before we went to sleep. Arriving at the hospital, we soon learned that her soul had somehow slipped away that night.
Stillbirth Through The Eyes Of A Child
It was hard, learning that my baby brother wasn’t coming home from the hospitals with my mummy. I don’t like hospitals anymore. I’m only four years old.
MISS Foundation
The MISS Foundation, established in 1996 by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, is an international 501(c)3, volunteer based organization providing C.A.R.E. [counseling, advocacy, research, and education] services to families experiencing the death of a child.
Sands
Sands is the miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death charity. We operate across Australia, supporting anyone affected by the death of a baby; working to improve the care bereaved parents receive by healthcare professionals and breaking the silence and taboo of baby death in today's society.
Still Aware
Still Aware is driving change and working tirelessly towards reducing preventable stillbirth. Change prior to the event. Change through education of clinicians and expectant families. We continue to work with key researchers in the field to gather and report data of care provisions already offered internationally, but which are not offered to Australian patients.
Still Mothers
We realized the great need for a positive resource in the babyloss community that focused on the unique needs of mothers with no living children. A place to connect, process, and seek healing with other mothers who understand the heartache of being a mother, but not being able to mother in a traditional way. Because we are all Still Mothers.
Still Standing Magazine
In the face of loss and infertility, our mission is to show the world that we are still standing. Holding fast to resilience and hope. Our mission is to help you embrace life for everything that it is after experiencing the loss of a child or infertility.
Stillbirthday
Stillbirthday Global Network is an internationally trusted benevolent organization whose philanthropic mission is simply to doula: to nurture sources of perinatal bereavement, strengthen skills of healthcare professionals and increase healthy engagement of perinatal related needs among communities.
1st Breath
1st Breath is committed to providing education, advocacy, and public awareness of stillbirth in addition to assisting families and professionals dealing with the death of a baby.
Action for Stillbirth Awareness & Prevention Coalition
To raise stillbirth awareness, unify voices, and accelerate prevention efforts in the United States.
First Candle
First Candle is committed to the elimination of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Sudden Unexpected Infant Death and preventable Stillbirths through education and research while providing support for grieving families who have suffered a loss.
Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth
GAPPS' mission is to lead a collaborative, global effort to increase awareness and accelerate innovative research and interventions that will improve maternal, newborn and child health outcomes.
Kelly Ryan Foundation
To provide financial assistance to families who have lost a baby but can not afford a burial or cremation.
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
NILMDTS trains, educates, and mobilizes professional quality photographers to provide beautiful heirloom portraits to families facing the untimely death of an infant. We believe these images serve as an important step in the family's healing process by honoring the child's legacy.
PSANZ Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Alliance
PSANZ-SANDA aims to reduce stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Australia and New Zealand and to ensure families receive the best possible care and support through the promotion of high quality collaborative research and best clinical practice.
Star Legacy Foundation
To increase awareness, support research, promote education, and encourage advocacy and family support regarding stillbirth, pregnancy loss, and neonatal death.
Stillbirth Foundation Australia
Today, The Stillbirth Foundation Australia is recognised nationally as a leading voice on stillbirth and represents the voices of thousands of Australian families who have been touched by stillbirth.
The Compassionate Friends
The mission of The Compassionate Friends: When a child dies, at any age, the family suffers intense pain and may feel hopeless and isolated. The Compassionate Friends provides highly personal comfort, hope, and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family.
The TEARS Foundation
The TEARS Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to compassionately lift a financial burden from families who have lost a baby by providing funds to assist with the cost of burial or cremation services.
Babies Remembered
We offer— ◾Understanding about the depth of despair, healing light, information, and hope to grieving families facing the darkness after the loss of a precious baby, no matter size or age, and to all who are touched by such tragic losses. ◾Help in finding support, understanding, compassionate care, guidance, resources, networking links, speakers, perinatal loss consultants, excellent standards of bereavement care, literature, and so much more.
Born Still but Still Born
This is our journey through life after loss always remembering Curtis and taking absolute joy in each day we have been given.
Emily’s Gift of Hope
Established in April 2013, we are a 501(c)(3) non-profit committed to helping bereaved families cope with the loss of a baby during pregnancy or infancy. Our goal is to raise the public’s awareness of the difficulties families face when enduring this kind of loss, and to improve the support these families receive.
Losing Lucy and Finding Hope
This is our story of losing our daughter, Lucy, finding hope in God, and trying again.
Still Breathing
Healing grief after pregnancy & child loss.
Stillborn. Still a Mother
I'm Amelia. I'm 20 and I live in Wiltshire with my partner, Mattie and my little puppy Olive. My first baby, Freddie was born sleeping on the 23rd of June 2015. I'm using this blog to keep his memories alive and celebrate the short time spent with him
Unspoken Grief
To build and support a community of individuals and families who have been touched directly or indirectly by miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal loss.
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