Stillbirthday Palliative Birth Center

I need your support.  I need you to tell everyone you know that I need their support.  Stillbirthday is breaking ground on something enormous, and I can’t do it alone.

I need you to be a part of this.

I want to open the very first Palliative Birth Center.  Let me share my vision with you:

Stillbirthday Palliative Birth Center

and Family Centered Infant Burial Meadow

A facility that provides holistic prenatal, palliative, birth, and farewell care, including:

• clinical pregnancy tests
• 4D ultrasounds
• urgent care: particularly for threatened miscarriage
• physician and nurse consultation
• factual information on prenatal development
• prenatal vitamins
• Love Cupboard support for tangible maternity and newborn items
• optimal pregnancy health education including nutrition and fitness
• individualized, palliative approach to difficult or fatal diagnosis
• referrals to select perinatologists and genetic counselors who support our vision
• birth preparation including meeting your stillborn baby
• labor & delivery care including specialized birth requests, additional family involvement
• immediate neonatal care: particularly for fatal diagnosis but including memory making
• surgical support including medically assisted birth, and organ and tissue donation options
• birth certificate in accordance with Missouri law
• immediate postpartum care, including lactation
• bereavement support including farewell planning
• family centered next step planning and arrangements including natural burial on our grounds, by our SBD Chaplains
• additional respite care beyond 24 hour postpartum
• referrals for additional bereavement support
• follow-up postpartum assessment(s)

Stillbirthday Palliative Birth Center affirms:

• The religious, cultural and ethnic background of mothers and fathers impacts the experience of pregnancy.
• The religious, cultural and ethnic background of mothers and fathers impacts the experience of pregnancy and infant loss.
• The right to plan an out-of-hospital birth including miscarriage, stillbirth, and fatal diagnosis.
• Researchers are only just beginning to document the vast physical, social and psychospiritual health benefits of physiological birth, and that a palliative approach to pregnancy and infant loss best mirrors this.
• The value of interdisciplinary prenatal, palliative and bereavement care.
• The documented value of palliative care, and of hospice settings, in other end-of-life experiences, which will be mirrored in our Palliative Birth Center.
• Political issues such as statistics of midwife attended, out of hospital stillbirth should not inhibit the right to holistic, palliative, out of hospital birth decisions.
• The right to create family-centered farewell plans, including natural burial (at our property), in accordance with state and local laws.

How you can help:

In short, we need a whole lot of prayers, and we need a whole lot of money.  Please, consider how you can help.  Please email Heidi.Faith@stillbirthday.info to get involved.  It would be an honor to have one or more primary financial founders who would be instrumental in providing the support that so many families deserve.  If you would consider becoming a large financial founder, you would be establishing a living legacy that would impact the world in a much needed, tremendously significant way.

This is just a sample birth center floor plan.  Here is the online source for this sample photo.

You can contribute to the development of our Palliative Birth Center in any amount:

You can send your thoughts, letters of encouragement, written prayers, and/or financial support to:

The M0M Center
101 W. Washington Street
Kearney MO 64060
With checks payable to:
Christian Childbirth Services LLC

The M0M Center is a refuge to give birth to healing.  It is the first piece to this Palliative Birth Center vision.
The M0M Center began in a 600 square foot facility and after the first year we relocated to a space that is more than double the size to make room for our growing ministries and services.
The M0M Center on facebook
The M0M Center website

Thank you!

Below is a list of people and organizations who have supported our vision by contributing

 toward the development of the Stillbirthday Palliative Birth Center:

• Dr. Julie Wood
• Northland Cathedral
• Blessing God’s Way
• Kristin Young and family