Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

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Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day was created to promote, support, educate and provide awareness for grieving parents nationwide (and worldwide).  Too many families grieve in silence, sometimes never coming to terms with their loss. Our goal is to help others relate to our loss, know what to say, do or not say, not do and to help families live with their loss, not "get over" their loss.

Did you know:

• 983,000 babies died in 1996, from miscarriage and stillbirth.
• In 1995, 15.7% of pregnancies ended in fetal demise, miscarriage or stillbirth.
• Those figures don't include neonatal loss, SIDS, or other causes.*
  

*According to The Center for Disease Control Trends in Pregnancies and Pregnancy Rates by Outcome Vital Health Stat (21)56 done in January 2000

More information about today can be found here: http://www.october15th.com/

You all know someone who is missing their angel and if you don't think you do, you do now. Unfortunately J and I have suffered a miscarriage.  We miscarried during the 11 week.  The baby only measured 8 weeks and 5 days.  We saw the heartbeat during our first ultrasound (156 bpm) and all looked great, until it ended in January of 2008.    We will never just "get over" our loss.  How can you "get over" something that you loved before you ever knew it?  We will, however, move on, though and not let our loss define who we are.  I really hate how there seems to be a stigma with pregnancy loss.  I feel we should talk about it more and not hide behind the fact that it happened.

I am sending all the love, thoughts and prayers out there to all the people who are like me, and who have suffered losses.