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Dr Aleena Wojcieszek @aleenawoj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

📢 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

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Amy M. V. Bowers, PhD @dramybowers.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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

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Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health Centre, LSHTM @lshtm-march.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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...

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International Stillbirth Alliance @isastillbirth.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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

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Amy M. V. Bowers, PhD @dramybowers.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

“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.”

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International Stillbirth Alliance @isastillbirth.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

#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

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Amy M. V. Bowers, PhD @dramybowers.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

"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."

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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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...

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'On the precipice of disaster': Measles may be endemic in 25 years if vaccine uptake stays low, model predicts

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Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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You’ll Never Guess When Pro-Life Hospitals Consider “Unborn Life” Not Actually Alive

Apparently not all unborn life is sacred.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/04/2025

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

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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

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International Stillbirth Alliance @isastillbirth.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

📢 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

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DC Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Support @dcplids.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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...

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Film Screening: Before a Breath

Screen ProPublica's "Before a Breath" in the Emancipation Room.

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Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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...

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Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn't the same as a 'person' • Iowa Capital Dispatch

A faith-based health care provider is arguing in court that the loss of an unborn child does not equate to the death of a “person.”

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