Not only is October Breast Cancer Awareness and Domestic Violence Month, it is also Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month.
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a resolution declaring October as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, in order to increase understanding and awareness of the over 1 million deaths each year of babies in pregnancy or in the first few months of life.
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day is to promote Support, Education and Awareness for grieving parents nationwide (and worldwide). October 15th is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day.
On October 15th, I am going to be lighting a candle for the people I know that have suffered losses in this manner. I invite you to join me in this.
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October 6, 2005 at 12:44 pm
We lost our first child at 9 weeks of pregnancy. This was 10 years ago. When you lose a child this way, it’s hard to know what to do with the feelings. You don’t have a name for the child since you don’t know whether it will be a boy or girl. Ther is no funeral and people usually just don’t know what to say so they usually just don’t say anything. You love this child that you’ve never even seen so there is still this great sense of loss. I still think about our first child from time to time. Even though we have 4 now that keep us busy I wonder what life would have been like. Only if…
I imagine that child in heaven right now asking God what type of parents we would have been. What it would have been like to be born, to see a sunset, to feel pain and loss, to know joy and pleasure. One day we’ll meet face to face. In a way it’s comforting knowing that when my parents die, they’ll have a grandchild waiting on them. I still have a hole in my heart from the loss but it’s filled with the comfort of nowing that God is there. He knows what it’s like to lose a child.
October 6, 2005 at 1:35 pm
Ah, Joel, that’s beautiful. I am so sorry for your loss. When I light my candle, I will be thinking of y’all, too.