Every new mom is filled with excitement as she leaves her first prenatal appointment with a "goody bag" in hand. Your doctor's office provides you with so much literature about 'what to expect' over the next nine months, including information on classes from prenatal yoga to breastfeeding. But when life takes an unexpected turn and you learn your baby has a birth defect and will not survive you simply receive their advise, "terminate the pregnancy and try again".
I needed more, I began to search the internet and went out to www.marchofdimes.com and that is where I found a Pregnancy & Newborn Loss - Health Education Center - From Hurt to Healing:Dealing with the Death of Your Baby. Here you are able to request bereavement materials and interestingly enough Healthcare Providers can also contact the March of Dimes and purchase these materials to have in their offices - so why don't they?
March of Dimes was there for me and that is why we support them; our family is forming a March for Babies Family Team to help the March of Dimes work towards the day when all babies are born healthy. You can visit our team page at www.marchforbabies.org/LittleEric , please consider making a donation to March of Dimes or joining our team to walk with us.
From hurt to healing... The March of Dimes bereavement materials:
"The death of an infant is perhaps the most difficult and wrenching tragedy any family can imagine. You don't expect a baby to die. Babies mean the beginning of life, not the end. It's that contradiction that makes the death of a baby so alien to our understanding, so difficult to believe and accept.When a baby dies, a bit of hope dies too, a bit of our dream breaks away, a bit of our future is erased before ever being written. Besides the physical loss, there is an emotional loss and a loss of all that a new life promises. "
http://www.marchofdimes.com/pnhec/572_15999.asp
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