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Our Missing Angels
His name is Will…. and he is “still”. If you didn’t know he was stillborn you might have thought he was a baby sleeping in his stroller. That’s because Will is hardly the image most people conjure up when they hear a baby was “stillborn”. But for the lack of a beating heart, he would be just like any other baby. Except for one brief moment in time, his parents will never get to hold him in their arms again. Some stillborn babies have physical deformities, but they’re few and far between. And some stillborn babies, who are not delivered until days after their death, will not have Will’s pink cheeks. But they are beautiful nonetheless. Ten fingers, ten tiny toes, and a turned up nose. Just “still”. The medical community, call Will – and all babies like him who are born but don’t take a breath – “fetuses”. It’s unfortunate because that term is what causes people to minimize our loss and trivialize our suffering. After all, in their minds, if it was “just a fetus”, why all the fuss? Doctors say they are being scientific. We say they are being insensitive. For the fight against stillbirth to be successful we need to enlist public aid by helping them to understand that our stillborn children were really B-A-B-I-E-S! We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. We know there must be hundreds of proud stillbirth parents who have a cherished picture of their baby like Will that they are willing to share with the world. Our goal is to assemble enough pictures to be able to demonstrate that yes, these were really B-A-B-I-E-S. If you have a suitable picture of your baby you’re willing to share, please e-mail it to us as a jpg file. In the e-mail please state you give us permission to post it on our website. Be sure to include your name, address and phone number and your baby’s name and date of birth. (Please don’t send us any actual photos because we would not want to be responsible if they are lost in the mail.) It generally takes a week from receipt until it is posted.
Last Updated 10/10/2007 Design donated by Web-Writer
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