Babyloss Awareness campaign

This year's campaign culminated in International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day on October 15th.

 

The 2006 campaign ran from 9th to 15th October. If you would like to become involved with Baby Loss Awareness, please visit our Awareness Campaign website or contact the campaign coordinator.

 

The Baby Loss Awareness campaign group exists to:

§ Promote October 15th as National Baby Loss Awareness Day* within the UK

§ Promote the annual Global Wave of Light* events and services where parents can acknowledge their losses

§ Promote awareness and understanding of the impact of pregnancy and baby loss among health and social care workers and the community at large.


*Baby Loss Awareness Day, including the "Wave of Light" events and services, are devised as a result of collaboration involving the support organisations operating in the area of pregnancy and baby loss. The work of each organisation is promoted without preference at all times.

 

To find out more, visit the campaign Events pages.  Throughout the year, you can light a virtual candle for your baby by clicking here: Light a Candle

 

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Welcome to Babyloss

The Babyloss website provides information and support online for anyone affected by the death of a baby during pregnancy, at birth, or shortly afterwards.

We hold an annual Awareness Campaign each October, joining forces with four national charities to plan remembrance events, distribute ribbon pins, and to raise awareness of pregnancy loss and infant loss amongst the general public and within the health sector.

News

New information leaflets

We're pleased to announce that the list of Babyloss health information topics has been expanded, and now includes:

Eclampsia

Group B Streptococcus

Hughes Syndrome

Pre-eclampsia, and

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Each topic provides a clinical overview and sources of further help and support.

Individuals are welcome to download a copy for their own use. If you are a health professional and would like to distribute a number of Babyloss health information leaflets, please contact us.

Our leaflets are available to download from the Information pages here.

 

Book recommendation

Waiting with Gabriel: A Story of Cherishing a Baby’s Brief Life, is a memoir about Amy Kuebelbeck's son, who was diagnosed antenatally with an incurable heart condition. The book describes her experience of continuing a pregnancy following a devastating prenatal diagnosis, preparing simultaneously for a baby’s birth and for a baby’s death.

More information about the book can be found through the web site Perinatal Hospice.org. The site lists many resources to help support parents who continue their pregnancies despite a terminal prenatal diagnosis.

Underweight women '72% more likely to miscarry'

A study commissioned by the Miscarriage Association has suggested that women who are underweight are more at risk of suffering a miscarriage than those who are overweight. Women whose body mass index was low - below 18.5 - when they conceived were much more likely to have a miscarriage in the first three months of pregnancy. The same study, conducted by a team of researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and involving 603 women aged 18 to 55, also indicated that taking vitamin supplements during the first weeks of pregnancy halved the odds of a miscarriage, as did eating fresh fruit and vegetables. The findings are published online in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (04/12/06).

Source: Presswatch