January 25th will be my third grandchild’s birthday.  There won’t be any cake or ice cream or a party. She isn’t here with us.   Instead we will put balloons on her gravesite.   She would have been 14.  …

In 1988, when President Ronald Reagan declared October to be Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, I was still in college, not yet married, and motherhood was a distant point in my future.  The proclamation, …

Most children who have a sibling die due to a pregnancy loss or stillbirth, or in the first few months of life, will experience a grief reaction.  However, often times, their grief is overlooked or …

Little People with Big Hurts
By Cathi Lammert, RN
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??? Most children who have a sibling that dies due to a pregnancy loss, stillbirth or in the first few months of life will experience a grief reaction. …

By Monica Novak –
As I walked into the house on a Friday morning, my husband, Al, handed me the front page of the Chicago Tribune.? “I think you should read this,” he said.? The headline …

By Nina Bennett –
In a monumental moment of synchronicity, I was present the night my beloved granddaughter was born still. She slid into this world without drawing a breath, following a full-term, healthy pregnancy and …

By Dr Lina Kaplan –
Pregnancy loss presents a formidable challenge to bereaved parents. Grieving parents often report a profound sense of isolation and alienation at the time when they most need support.? Many people do …

By Diana Gardner-Williams -

We never truly know how our partner will react when a baby or pregnancy has come to an end. Most likely our husbands will grieve and display sorrow in a different manner.
After …

By Suzanne Schafer ?

Tiara writes: I just recently had my first child who was a still-born. I wake wondering what his voice sounds like, yet?I did feel?I knew. He seemed to be the friendliest?person that I would love. I?had to have my pregnancy induced. The sad part was I thought that would help more than it would hurt him, yet it seemed he wasn’t receiving all the things he needed. When my doctor told me my son was dead (I thought he was a girl for most his time in the womb), my heart was broken and I couldn’t hold back my tears. When I lost him, at first my state of mind wasn’t together. I heard what the doctors told me, but I was still assuming he was coming home to me.

by Irv Leon, Ph.D. –??

By Kira Copperman, LMSW –
Being a patient at a fertility clinic brings moments of anxiety, hope, excitement, fear, and stress.? The time and effort to become pregnant can feel like an emotional roller coaster and …

By Nina Bennett –
I know all too well the devastation of pregnancy and infant loss. My precious granddaughter Maddy, after a healthy full-term pregnancy and normal labor, with no indication of fetal distress, slid still …

My niece, suzanne, gave birth Monday, May 12, 2008 to a 6?8? little boy. The baby was still born. Her pregnancy was fine and she had been to the doctor the previous friday. Baby?s heart beat was strong and she discussed inducing labor with her doctor. They scheduled it for Saturday, May 17th. On Sunday [...]

?lost my daughter Lanai on March 9, 2008. She would have been my first. I miss her so much and it hurts. I know that I will get through it but dealing with this alone has been extremely difficult. I find comfort in reading everyone comments to each other and praying. I know that she [...]

Babies aren?t supposed to die.? Yet, each year, in the United States alone, approximately 26,000 babies will be stillborn.? Another 26,000 will die within their first year of life.? And it is estimated that nearly …