Today marks Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Day. At 7 PM (your time), please light a candle in memory of those lost and in honor of those remembering. We'll light up the world.
There are no words that I can say that would be more graceful and eloquent than those written by Antigone.
With the presidential election and financial crisis eclipsing all else this fall, the Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act will likely go unaddressed for another year.
Another Year. For another year, thousands of parents will leave the hospital with a list of funeral homes, no living child to cradle, and an unanswered question. Why?
The why will continue to go unanswered and potential treatments left undiscovered for another year. They will go unanswered and undiscovered because current research and funding are insufficient. Until S.3142 and H.R. 5979, the congressional bills for The Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act are passed, the problem will remain unsolved.
My son's name was Henry. His heart stopped beating on January 17th, 2008. On October 15th, and every day of the year, I remember him and thousands of others.
Please write or email your members of Congress and ask them to pass S.3142 and H.R.5979, The Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act now.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
S.3142 and H.R. 5979 Stillbirth Awarenesss and Research Act
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I am considering lighting my candle now (three hours early) just so that I don't forget on time.
Did not know there was such a day. There so many [insert cause here] months/days that they are all a blur to me. I'll try to remember at 7pm today though.
[I'm making my rounds visiting potential cross-pollination sites, btw - hi!]
I just lit my candle in honor of my little lost angel.
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