Grief | Grieving | Death of a Child

New York Legislators Kill Bill for Grieving Mothers

Albany, NY (June 26, 2008) — SB8960 would have helped to provide much-needed comfort, dignity, and accurate documentation to women and their families experiencing the death of a baby just prior to or during birth. Yet, despite overwhelming support from individual legislators, including 53 Democrat and Republican sponsors, a powerful minority of reproductive rights activist legislators have “killed the bill” as of 11:00 p.m. on the last day of session. Read the rest of this entry »

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 she started to feel not so well and put a call into her doctor. She was given an appt. for the next morning. During her visit they were not able to hear a heartbeat so they did an ultrasound and discovered there was no longer any life in the baby. Read the rest of this entry »

I know what these people are going through. I discovered I was pregnant in June 2007. It was a surprise, but I had fully accepted this beautiful little life that was to bless our home. The baby was due February 17, 2008. Everything was fine until I got to the fifth month, (20th week) Oct. 2007. I noticed a lack of movement, but I didn’t think anything of it, because the baby did that from time to time. I woke up one morning (Oct. 3), and realized I hadn’t felt any real movement in a while. I was worried, but I had an appointment for an ultrasound later that morning, and I figured everything would be fine. It wasn’t. My body tensed, and my heart dropped the instant I saw my beautiful baby on the ultrasound screen, and I couldn’t see the familiar flutter of the heart beat. I remember asking, “Where’s the heart?” The OB looked for a second, Read the rest of this entry »

Good afternoon,
My story is all too familiar. I learned of my pregnancy in August 2007. At that time, I was 6 months pregnant. I had no symptoms at all before this time. At the 6 month stage, I felt movement in my belly and went to my OB. They took a blood test and the test came back false/positive. At that point, they did a sonogram and we found out about our son. They did a 3D photo of him and I immediately bonded with him. When I told my husband, he was so excited because he had 2 daughters from a previous marriage, so this would be his first son. I went back to the OB after 2 weeks to get my check up and I heard his heartbeat and felt him move. I just could not believe how amazing this was because I did not think I could get pregnant. Two more weeks went by and I went back to the OB and at that point they could not find his heartbeat. The doctors rushed me to the nearest hospital and they still could not find a heartbeat. They admitted me the next day to induce labor. On Saturday, Septem ber 22, I delivered our son, Jayden Christian Harper. He was a beautiful boy. Before he was delivery, the hospital staff asked if we wanted him in the room with us afterwards. At first I said, no, then after some thought and I saw his face, I immediately said yes!!!! Two hours after he was born, we had him baptized. The day finally came when we had to give him back to the hospital so they could do the autopsy and that was the saddest day of our lives. At this point, we have not gotten the autopsy report and I am waiting…constantly looking out the

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