Thursday 20 September 2007

Losing a Baby on Channel 5

This morning there was a Wright Stuff special look at what it's like to lose a baby before term. Around a quarter of a million pregnancies end in miscarriage in the UK each year - that's one in four. Yet it's a subject rarely talked about. Why the taboo, I wonder? Well, we'll be finding out this morning and talking to women and their partners about what it's like to lose their unborn child. How do you cope? How does the loss affect your relationship? And can you ever move on? Does it make a difference if you lose your baby early on compared to much later in your pregnancy, I wonder?

The website gave some good links including one organisation I had not heard of http://www.babyloss-awareness.org/ The site states:
People whose lives have been touched by the loss of a baby during pregnancy or just after birth are uniting with others across the UK to show their support for the Baby Loss Awareness campaign 2007, which focuses on International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day on October 15th. As in previous years, we are encouraging a number of Wave of Light and other events across the UK.

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