Facts/Stats on Pregnancy & Infant Loss

This section is a network of fact and statistic listings.  Please utilize our “types of loss” section for a much more comprehensive support. 

While searching for reasons for infant death may be part of your healing journey, it is not the entire journey and cannot prevent or undo the journey.  Please, we ask you most deeply, that if you seek answers, to have support with you as you do.  We do hope that if you are considering getting pregnant again, that infant death can be prevented.  But we cannot guarantee or endorse any one method for that to happen.  Finding inconclusive tests or finding medical reasons can bring you to a fresh level of grief, one that requires support.

Statistics

One in Two Won’t
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Infertility

• Resolve
• Fertile Hope (cancer treatment)
• Conceive online publication

Maternal Diagnosis

• MTHFR
• Factor V Leiden

Notes: Folate, not folic acid, is recommended in pregnancy, as well as B12, not cyanocobalamin, for mothers with the above.  Some studies also indicate a possible connection with newborns of mothers with the above diagnoses having tongue tie and jaundice.

Also: You might ask your provider about including MTHF

Umbilical Cord Information

• Cord Complications

Miscarriage

• hCG Testing
• Facts About Miscarriage

Stillbirth

• International Stillbirth Alliance
• Star Legacy Foundation
• ISPID
• Missing Angels Bill (does your state offer a birth certificate for stillbirth, or only a death certificate?)

Medical Mistakes

• AIM
• James’s Project (medical mistakes in hospital)
• Our Child Loss section has resources for medical provider mistakes

Pregnancy Loss Involving Twins or Multiples

• CLIMB

Neonatal Death

• March of Dimes

Fatal Diagnosis Resources

• Fatal Diagnosis Links

Nonmedical Fertility Support

• Fertile Heart
• More SBD Fertility Support Resources

Alternative/Homeopathic Theories Resources

• Diversity Keepsakes/Books
• Palm Reading & Unofficial Diagnosis (“Simian Line”)