Mastodawn

DC Pregnancy Loss Support Feb 9, 2023

"My daughter's body was brought from the warmth of my uterus into the bright light of the operating room via C-section...We named her Ruthie. She was 37 1/2 weeks gestation, nearly 6 pounds, and over 19 inches long. I fell in love with her instantaneously.

She was already dead, though, when she was born."

https://www.insider.com/pregnant-child-stillborn-mourning-trauma-2023-2

I'm pregnant with my 2nd child after my first was stillborn

The writer says that while she's mourning the death of her daughter, she's determined to help her son grow up knowing and loving his older sister.

Insider

DC Pregnancy Loss Support Jan 4, 2023

"I came to the conclusion that the world wasn’t bad, at all — in fact, what we think of as bad, or as sin, is actually suffering. And that the world is not animated by evil, as we are so often told, but by love, and that, despite the suffering of the world, or maybe in defiance of it, people mostly just cared." https://unherd.com/2022/12/how-grief-made-me-a-person/

Grief made me a person

Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth

UnHerd

DC Pregnancy Loss Support Jan 3, 2023

See our upcoming meetings here: https://dc-plids.org/calendar #miscarriage #stillbirth #grief #perinatalloss

Calendar — DC PLIDS

DC PLIDS

DC Pregnancy Loss Support Dec 29, 2022

"Louisiana's near-total abortion ban, which took effect on Aug. 1, has raised fears among physicians that they could potentially be investigated for treating a miscarriage, since the same treatments are also used for abortion." https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/29/1143823727/bleeding-and-in-pain-she-couldnt-get-2-louisiana-ers-to-answer-is-it-a-miscarria

Bleeding and in pain, she couldn't get 2 Louisiana ERs to answer: Is it a miscarriage?

When she was pregnant, Kaitlyn Joshua struggled to get medical care — and answers — in post-Roe Louisiana, where abortion is banned.

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio

DC Pregnancy Loss Support Dec 27, 2022

ProPublica Dec 27, 2022

She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.
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Black women overall are more than twice as likely as white women to have a #stillbirth, according to 2020 #CDC data.

In some states, including #SouthCarolina, #Kansas & #Tennessee, they are around three times as likely to deliver a stillborn baby.

#Parents #babies #health #healthcare #pregnancy

https://www.propublica.org/article/stillbirths-pregnancy-mothers-parents-racial-disparities

She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”

ProPublica