Please know this is an approximate timeframe.

The following is support when baby is expected to be born alive.

The following is support when baby will not be born alive.  

You might also visit the D&C/D&E birth or the older gestation birth pages for more information.

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

Learning

• Start Here
• Types of Loss  {including Live Miscarriage}
• Birth Methods
• Labor & Birth Education: Levels of Augmentation, Induction, and more
• Birth Planning Introductory Pages
• Mid Pregnancy Birth Introductory Planning Page
• Birth Plan: Mid Pregnancy 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, photograph your baby 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.

The following is support when one or more multiples will not be born alive.

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

Multiples Pregnancy

• General Multiples Pregnancy Information

Multiples Loss

• Vanishing Twin or Papyraceous
• Selective Reduction or Termination for Medical Reasons (TFMR)

Multiples Birth Plans

• Multiples Birth Plan Introductory Page

Multiples, when one or all babies have died

• Twins Natural & Artificial Induction Birth Plan
• Twins Cesarean Birth Plan

When one baby (or more)  has died, but one (or more)  is expected to live

• Twins Natural & Artificial Induction Birth Plan (1 Surviving)
• Twin Cesarean Birth Plan (1 Surviving)
• NICU Information

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.

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

Learning

• Start Here
• Types of Loss
• Birth Methods
• Our Definition of D&C
• Our Definition of D&E
• Labor & Birth Education: Levels of Augmentation, Induction, and more
• Birth Planning Introductory Pages
• D&C and D&E Birth Planning Page
• Birth Plan: D&C or D&E

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.

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
• Early Pregnancy Home Birth Introductory Planning Page
• Birth Plan: Early Pregnancy Home 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, photograph your baby 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.