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News Story Submission Template :
I AM THE FACE Campaign, presented by Faces of Loss, Faces of Hope
Each year, over 700,000 women experience pregnancy loss; 26,000 of them lose their babies after the sixth month of pregnancy, and 20,000 babies die, every year, in their first month of life.
My baby was one of those numbers. {example—insert 1-2 sentences of your own story here—keep it short. When I was 26 weeks pregnant, my baby died. Up until the day my doctor looked me in the eye and said, “there is no heartbeat,” I had your perfect, textbook pregnancy. I’m 24 and healthy. I had no reason to think anything would go wrong.} Things like this just don’t happen to healthy, normal people like me, I thought.
But I was wrong. Pregnancy/infant loss is more common than I ever imagined, and it does not discriminate. It affects women of all ages, of all races, of all walks of life. It’s not just something that happens to “other people,” it can happen to anyone.
Hundreds of thousands of women go through the death of their child every year, yet no one talks about it. Because it’s become such a taboo, “hush-hush” subject in our society, women are often forced to suffer in silence. Alone.
In an effort to bring pregnancy/infant loss out of the shadows, and bring survivors of it together, I am part of the I AM THE FACE campaign (iamtheface.org), organized by Faces of Loss, Faces of Hope, an online support organization for survivors of miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss, and coinciding with October 15th, National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.
At IAMTHEFACE.ORG you can find real stories and faces of pregnancy/infant loss, myths and facts, ways to connect with other ‘faces of loss’ and more.
Please consider doing a story about the I AM THE FACE campaign, to help us ‘put a face’ on pregnancy/infant loss, and let more women who are suffering in silence know that they are not alone, and have no reason to be ashamed.
One in every four women will experience pregnancy/infant loss at some time in their life. Even if some don’t end up experiencing it themselves, someone they know—their friend, their sister, their coworker—will. This is a story that is incredibly relevant, and incredibly needed for everyone.
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