Birth & Bereavement | 30+ weeks

Here is a culmination of links to offer support on this difficult journey.

Learning

• Start Here
• Types of Loss
• Birth Methods
• Labor & Birth Education: Levels of Augmentation, Induction, and more
• Birth Planning Introductory Pages

Home Still Birth

• Home Still Birth Planning Introductory Page
• Water Birth

Vaginal Birth

• Vaginal Birth Planning Introductory Page
• Birth Plan: Vaginal Birth

Cesarean Birth

• Cesarean Birth Planning Introductory Page
• Birth Plan: Cesarean Birth

Building Your Team

• How your Friends & Family can Support You
• Find a Birth & Bereavement Doula, Photographer, and more

During Birth/Welcoming

• How to hold, bathe your baby and how to get creative to substitute/replace some of these options, and more
• What your SBD Doula can do
• Prepare by viewing photos shared by stillbirthday mothers

Postpartum

• M0M health: emotional, mental, physical (lochia, lactation, and more)
• Preparing for the Farewell, including siblings, and more

Long Term Healing

• View our enormous Library of Birth Stories by Gestational Week, and more
• Share Your Story
• Get involved in stillbirthday through any of our articles, events, locations and more.
• You can find us on Facebook as well.

About this photo:

My beautiful friend Franchesca designed this as a logo to represent the realities of giving birth at home.  This is a purple birth ball, which resembles our purple zero candle here at stillbirthday.  Atop the birth ball is a rebozo, or long scarf, often used by doulas and midwives in assisting in comfort and support during birth.  This particular rebozo is colored in pink and blue – the pregnancy and infant loss awareness ribbon.  If you are a mother who has given birth at home, you are invited to use this logo to represent your experience.

This photo shows a complex dichotomy of demographics- because planned homebirth which becomes the unexpected death of the baby can bring with it complicated feelings and pressures of judgment, because even while increasing is still considered an unconventional birth plan.

Yet, this image also represents the reality that planned homebirth may still be a very valid option when it is discovered that your baby is not alive; a planned home stillbirth, in compliance with your local laws and supervised support, can be a particularly healing and deeply valuable experience.

Both demographics are honored here at stillbirthday.  Every birth is unique and every family has the right to their inherent integrity and support.

In every situation, there are options for the family to choose from.  It is our hope at stillbirthday that you choose the options that are safest for you and bring you the most healing.