📢 Did you know?

The International Stillbirth Alliance has joined the @who.int campaign #HealthyBeginnings, #HopefulFutures with its own year-long global effort for #stillbirth.

This campaign is called #IAmISA.

Catch up on all the posts so far at @isastillbirth.bsky.social

#EndStillbirths

I choose to talk about my experience because #stillbirth cannot be tiptoed around or whispered about as “unimaginable.” Babies are #stillborn at alarming rates worldwide. It is a public health crisis. Parents are grieving and traumatized. #IamISA #EndStillbirths #HopefulFutures

Join MARCH & the @isastillbirth.bsky.social for a seminar exploring @unicef.org’s new report, Standing up for Stillbirth.

Stakeholders from across the globe will discuss the latest data and report findings, as well as the key next steps for action.

Info 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Meet @amandarosswhite.bsky.social. Amanda lost her sons Nate and Sam to #stillbirth in 2007. She now teaches nurses to care
with empathy and evidence.

Amanda's work reminds us that respectful care changes everything.

#IamISA #EndStillbirths #HealthyBeginnings #HopefulFutures

“My advice to anyone offering their sympathies to someone who has suffered pregnancy loss is not to try to put any kind of positive spin on it. Any sentence that starts with ‘At least…’ is definitely best left unsaid.”

The biopsychosocial–spiritual impact on non-clinical health professionals who interact with traumatic and/or sensitive health data: A scoping review

Melanie Tassos, Lindsay Carey, Stephanie Gjorgioski, Brad Hodge & Merilyn Riley

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#Stillbirth is a public health crisis & a deeply personal tragedy.

@mvkinney.bsky.social shares one such tragedy & why she has worked for 15+yrs with parents, advocates & changemakers to #BreakTheSilence and end preventable #stillbirths.

#IamISA #EndStillbirths ##HealthyBeginnings #HopefulFutures

"Not only do I grieve for my baby and the person they could have been, but for the person I was before I was forced to live without them. This feeling is one I’ll take to my deathbed, and it’s my life’s work to make peace with it."

Buried in this news are 10,500 cases of congenital #rubella syndrome. The classic triad is cataracts, cardiac malformations and deafness. Other problems with rubella during pregnancy include stillbirth and miscarriage.

#MedSky + #IDSky + #ObGynSky.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/prec...

My newest on @slate.com all about an Iowa Catholic Hospital's belittling of unborn life (stillbirth at 36 weeks) in an attempt to reduce its medmal damages.

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Having a mental health condition means you're at increased risk of having a physical health problem undiagnosed or diagnosed late, and you're at greater risk of a diagnostic error, @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk systematic review shows. www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

How Having a Baby Is Changing Under Trump

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NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies.

By @alecmac.bsky.social

📢 We have joined the @who.int campaign #HealthyBeginnings, #HopefulFutures with our own year-long global effort.

🎥 Today, meet @zanleisher.bsky.social & @hblencowe.bsky.social, our Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group co-chairs, as they share our campaign’s vision.

#EndStillbirths #IamISA

The @propublica.org documentary “Before a Breath” braids together the stories of 3 mothers determined to make pregnancy safer after losing children to stillbirth. Join us for a free screening at President Lincoln's Cottage May 8: www.eventbrite.com/e/film-scree...

Got the pleadings. It's actually worse. Catholic hospital also argues that a baby stillborn at 34 weeks is not a "death" and refers to baby as a "non-existent person."

Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn’t the same as a ‘person’ iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/09/a...