I am going to tell you something I hope you'll never know. I'll tell you how a heart can break and tears can constant flow. I lost my baby boy, you see. So precious in my eyes. God chose to take his hand one-day and led him to the skies. But please do not forget my child, he was a person too. And forever he will live inside of me and you. So, please don't ever tell me that time will heal my pain. Because not even time, can bring him back again! Just tell me he is happy in that land up above. He's snuggled in an angel's wings, all wrapped up in our love.

4.5 million stillbirths occur each year worldwide according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The reported stillbirth rate in the industrialized world is typically under 10 per a 1000 total births. The statistics for Canada in 2001 are 2,038, an increase of 3.5% from 2000 (Statistics Canada).

Causes of stillbirth include congenital abnormalities, placental abruption, umbilical cord accidents, infection, and maternal complications of pregnancy such as hypertension and diabetes. More then 25% of stillbirths are due to unknown complications.

STILLBIRTH: KNOW THE FACTS

SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT S.A.D.S.

BEING PROACTIVE IN YOUR PRENATAL CARE

CRUCIAL CONSIDERATIONS TO HELP PREVENT STILLBIRTH

On Stillbirth: An Open Letter to the Clergy

Silent Risk: Issues about the human umbilical cord

If still born parents are to change the way in which society views stillbirth, we need to research and raise global awareness. Stillbirth occurs often, stillbirth occurs more often then that of SIDS, yet there is a failure to research why it occurs, and to implement proactive prenatal care as a method of prevention. Is our loss not as equality important to deaths from SIDS? Are our children non-existent because society views our children as products of conception, to be nothing more then simply a fetus? Do they not realize that these are our children, our future?

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I dedicate this memorial to the babies who have lost their lives as a result of stillbirth and to the families who have lost a future with those children. To the memory of Riley Joseph (RJ) Duclos-Roach.

The Canadian Foundation for October 15th

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

Mission: To obtain October 15th as a official day of recognition for Canadian families who have lost children during or shortly after birth.

Goals: To promote support, education, and awareness for grieving families who have lost children during pregnancy or shortly after birth.

To ensure that families who experience pregnancy and infant loss are not isolated in their grief.

How you can help: You can help support families who experience pregnancy and infant loss by becoming a member and raising awareness.

Why is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day important? Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day is essential to

raising awareness, by raising awareness we can ensure that essential services are made available to families who experience the loss

of a child during pregnancy or shortly after birth.

"First you have to throw a rock in the water to make it ripple; We are the beginning of that ripple." Carlos Santana.

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