my lovely new shirt.

"be the change you hope to see in the world."

I bought a shirt from a fundraiser for 'now I lay me down to sleep'.  They are amazing because they take pictures of stillborn babies for their families.  I got the shirt in the mail yesterday, and that's what it says on it.  "be the change you hope to see in the world"

I want the way people see stillbirth to change.  I want it to stop being taboo.  I want people to start giving a shit that 26,000 babies in the US die that way a year, and literally millions more around the world every year.  I want there to be more research done, I want women to be more educated about it during pregnancy, and I certainly want doctor's to stop this from happening.

We are finding out more and more about what the doctors and nurses did wrong, and why Virginia died.  Realizing it could definitely have been prevented breaks my heart.  And makes me so so angry.  They should have known better.

So, I want research done.  I want that change.  I will advocate for that until the day I die.  I will educate every one I can.  I will be the change.