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WOMAN'S
LIFE HELPS PARENTS DEAL WITH LOSS
BOND WITH DEAD NEWBORN URGED
Published on Wednesday, October 7, 1998
Section: Chandler Community Page: EV13
© 1998 The Arizona Republic
Two-year-old Joshua Cacciatore
knows who his big sister is. ''Where's Cheyenne, Josh?'' asks his mom, Joanne.
''Where's Chey?'' Joshua goes off to find her. He returns with a picture, which
he stares at lovingly, holding on to it with an intensity usually reserved
for hugs. Read the entire article...
DEATH AT LIFE'S BEGINNING
CAREGIVERS TAUGHT HOW TO HELP FAMILIES GRIEVE WHEN INFANTS DIE
Published on Wednesday, September 10, 1997
Section: Scottsdale/Foothills Community Page: 6
ｩ 1997 The Arizona Republic
Joanne Cacciatore was 20
minutes away from delivering her fourth child when doctors heard the fetal
heartbeat suddenly stop. For reasons that have never been explained, Cheyenne
was stillborn. Instead of joy, Cacciatore and her husband faced only grief
as they held their baby for the first and last time. Read
the entire article...
M.I.S.S. National 1st Annual
Children's Memorial Day Ceremony
CANDLELIGHT IN MEMORY OF LOST CHILDREN
By John Stanley
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 13, 1999
One by one, with voices quavering with
emotion, they named the children they had lost. Then they touched their candles
to the small flame at the head of their assembly until the darkness was awash
in the glow of hundreds of golden lights. Read the
entire article...
Valley Couple Turn Loss Into
Triumph for Children
12News.com
Posted: (12/8/99, 05:00 PM)
Losing a child is one of the
most painful things a parent can suffer. A Valley couple is trying to
turn their grief into someone else's joy. Read
the entire article...
'Tiny presence' changes mother's
life forever
By Michelle Craig
Bulldog - Dec 11, 1998
Joanne Cacciatore
keeps a memory book of her daughter Cheyenne's birth.
There are photographs of Cheyenne being rocked by her mother. Pictures of the
proud father, Paul, showing his baby to the world. Snapshots of Cacciatore
kissing her little baby girl. Read the article...
Our Story of Organ
Donation
By Karen Loomis
The green ribbon is the national
symbol for organ and tissue donation. Please take time to think about
what you and your family would do if faced with this decision. Long before
I became a nurse, I felt that organ donation was the "right" thing
to do. I had already told my husband that he better tell me if he didn稚
want to be one, because if it was left up to me and something happened,
he would be a donor. I had said on several occasions that I thought that
donating your child痴 organs would be hard, but that it would be the "right" thing
to do. I never thought that I would be put to the test to prove what
I was saying. Read the entire story...
What
to do with all this breast milk?
By Nancy Grayson
Looking into my son's deep blue
eyes, many thoughts came to me as I held my dying baby in the neonatal
intensive care unit on an October afternoon. The lactation nurse
that had advised me on pumping breast milk for our baby's feedings
was caring for Joel that same day. I told the nurse of my great disappointment
in not getting to breast-feed Joel, because he was too weak. This
compassionate woman gave me the most precious gift! She showed me
how I could put tiny drops of my breast milk in Joel's mouth. Read
the entire story...
Memorial
Recognizes Young Lost Lives
By Michelle
Craig, The Arizona Republic
Wednesday, December 6, 2000,
The Arizona Republic
One fear of parents whose
child has died is that their son or daughter will be forgotten.
Phoenix resident Linda Schmidt,
who lost her 10-week-old son, Skyler Kirby, to interstitial viral pneumonia
in January, says it's something she won't let happen. Read
the entire story...
Parents Of Stillborn May Sue
By Howard Fischer,Capitol Media
Services
Thursday, May 20,
1999, Arizona Business Gazette
A state appellate court has opened
the door a little wider to lawsuits and damages against doctors.
The judges have concluded
that parents of a child who is stillborn have the right to sue for
loss of companionship. The court concluded the fact that the parents
never had a relationship with the child outside the womb is not a
barrier to such suits. Read the entire
story...
Dictionary for the Loss of
a Child, Pt 1
by Kara LC Jones
One of the things that struck
me when reading Dr. Sukie Miller's book "Finding Hope After
A Child Dies" was the sense that our American English language
has no words to even describe what it is like to be a parent whose
child has died. Read more...
Moving
on after losing a child
By Cathy Babao Guballa
LOSING a child has been
described as the worst kind of loss anyone could possibly go through,
a searing and unspeakable pain. The emotions that accompany a loss
of this magnitude is much like plumbing the depths of an abyss, not
knowing if one will ever be able to climb out of it one day, unscathed
and whole. When a child dies, a part of the self is cut off and many
bereaved parents like to use the metaphor of an amputated limb. Read
more...
MISS Foundation sets meeting
A much needed resource
for parents dealing with the tragic loss of a child due to stillbirth,
miscarriage, neonatal death, SIDS, anomalies or any other reason is
coming to the area. Read the entire story...
S.A.D. Syndrome
"Normal babies
are dying needlessly during maternal sleep," says Jason H. Collins,
M.D., "and I truly believe that hald these babiees don't have
to die." Dr. Collins is an obstetrician of twenty years and has
been researching Sudden Antenatal Death (S.A.D.) Syndrome for a decade. Read
more...
Dealing
with the pain
Support group forming to help
parents deal with the loss of a child
September 5th, 2001; The Sun
Linda Cooper was pregnant
with her second child in August 1995 when the unthinkable happened.
The baby came into the world with a deafening silence. Cooper's son
Benjamin was stillborn at 37 weeks. He did not receive a birth certificate,
only a certificate of "fetal demise". Read
the entire story...
Candle Lighting Sunday, Dec.
9
Thousands of people worldwide, united by grief, are preparing for
a Worldwide Candle Lighting Sunday, Dec. 9. Hosted by "the MISS Foundation",
a support group for families following the death of a child. More...
Bear Hugs
Mark and Margaret Abarr
represent the national group MISS (Mothers In Sympathy and Support)
for parents whose children have died neonatal deaths. In memory of
their son, Tyler David, who would have been 1 year old, the Abarrs
donated more than 68 teddy bears to the Peoria Police Department. Read
more...
Conference to
help cope with child loss
Loss of a child is a terrible
sorrow, but families and health-care workers will speak frankly
June 29 and 30 about how child deaths can be prevented and
how grieving parents can find comfort.
"Passages 2001",
a two-day conference for families and medical professionals,
was organized by Joanne Cacciatore, founder of the MISS Foundation,
which is sponsoring the conference. Read
more...
Memorial recognizes
young lost lives; Vigil lost children are remembered
One fear of parents whose
child has died is that their son or daughter will be forgotten.
Phoenix resident Linda Schmidt, who lost her 10-week old son, Skyler Kirby,
to interstitial viral pneumonia in January, says it's something that she
won't let happen. More...
The Kindness
of Strangers
This story ran in the Boston Globe Magazine on 8/4/2002. © Copyright
2002 Globe Newspaper Company.
Tens of thousands of women grieving over pregnancy loss turn to the Internet
every day. It is the one place where they can receive unconditional, and
immediate, support. Read on...
Remembering
the Lost Babies
by Krista
E Bjorn, Star Correspondent
Kim Lotz is now able to
talk about her son, Tyler, without crying. She can look with a smile
at his footprints, stroke a lock of his hair, and hold the tiny hat
he wore when he was born. She can even look at a picture of him take
after delivery. Read more...
Bill Creates
Special Death Certificate For Stillborn Infants
By Rick Collins, STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE, Rick.Collins@statehousenews.com
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, JULY 25, 2002.....Minutes before Lynn Barbieri gave
birth in April 2000, doctors detected a heartbeat coming from her soon-to-be-born
daughter. But then something tragic happened and Barbieri's first child was
delivered stillborn. More...
Foundation honors
babies who 'soar'
The Glendale Star, December
28, 2000 - by Carolyn Dryer, Managing Editor
While many families were opening gifts with all of their children on Christmas,
there are a few mothers and fathers who were thinking about the gifts they
were not opening with the children they lost. Read
on...
Be thankful
several small blessings
Editorial by Carolyn Dryer,
Peoria Times, December 22, 2000
When I talked with Joanne Cacciatore on the phone, I knew I would like this
person when I met her face to face. But, what would I say to her? What questions
would I ask? More...
Botanical Garden
dedicates gate today
Idaho Statesman, September
15, 2001 by Kristin Rodine
Nancy and Peter Grayson
will host a dedication of "Joel's Gate" at the Idaho
Botanical Children's Garden in Boise at 11 this morning. Read
more...
Bill allowing
birth certificates for stillbirths advances
by Dana Tackett; The Indianapolis
Star, January 22, 2002
Lorri Jacob's only proof of her stillborn son, David, is his grave site.
She was allowed a birth certificate but that law might soon change in Indiana. Read
on...
A night
of healing
Parents coping with the death of a child will
gather in Arcadia to observe National Children's Memorial Day
by Aisha Mori; San Gabriel
Valley Weekly
ARCADIA - Jennifer Zuong's son, Andrew George only lived for 21days in July,
but he will always be an important part of her life. More...
Comfort certificate
By Lorraine Ash, Daily
Record; 10/15/02
- Posted 11:26:18 PM from the Daily Record newsroom
One day
last year a high school friend visited Assemblyman Thomas
H. Kean Jr., R-Morris. She told him she'd lost her first
child, that the child was stillborn, that she hurt because
so few people acknowledge her baby existed. Read
more...
When
grief transforms into a helping hand
Chris Radel
and Shelly Porter Richardson, Spirituality.com, October
2002.
A friend reaches out her hand
to help a man traverse the stones embedded in a rushing river.
At first the man doesn't want to take the first step. He is too
afraid. After a few steps he stops and says he wants to go back.
Patiently, she holds his hand and waits until he is ready to take
another step. And another, and then another. Finally,
just as they reach the other side of the river, the man turns around
and heads back to the other side. She calls out to him, "Where
are you going?" The
man says, "I see someone else back there who needs help." Read
the entire article...
Parents
of babies who have died grieve a future that will never be
By MARY K.
REINHART, EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE , December 2002
She was to be the third child. It had been seven years since a baby was in
the house and for the first time, Margie Sheard was ready.
The Tempe mother retrieved
the crib from relatives. Her husband refinished it so it looked
like new. Sheard bought sheets and newborn diapers, and her 10-year-old
daughter picked out a stuffed lamb that was placed in the crib
to await baby Sophie. Read on...
She heard her stillborns
'cry in the night'
BY JIM RITTER, CHICAGO
SUN TIMES, January 19, 2003
Her doctor said everything
was fine, but Mary Geitz sensed something had gone terribly wrong
with her second pregnancy.
The baby would go a day or two without kicking, and when it stopped all movement,
Geitz had an ultrasound. The test found no heartbeat. Twenty-one weeks into
her pregnancy, Geitz's baby, Angel, had died. Her doctor scheduled Geitz
for an induced labor the next day. Read
more...
Suboptimal care implicated
in many infant deaths in UK
Mark Pownall , London BMJ
1999;319:77 ( 10 July )
Better care would "probably" or "almost
certainly" have made a difference to the outcome in half
of the cases of stillbirths and infant deaths in England, Wales,
and Northern Ireland, suggested the annual report of the confidential
inquiry into stillbirths and deaths in infancy, which was published
this week. Read the entire article...
Grieving the stillborn child
By Amanda Gardner, HealthScout
News
USA Today - Health & Science, 10/31/2002
The outrage felt by women across
the United States who had lost a baby during childbirth still boils.
Back in July, the British medical
journal The Lancet published a study that looked at 65 women who had
had stillborn children. The researchers concluded that women who saw and
held their babies experienced deeper depression and anxiety than women who
didn't see their dead infant. Read more...
Healing with help
By Mary Beth P. Adomaitis, Special to the Independent
H.B. Independent, February 20, 2003
After the devastating
loss of her son, Blake, three years ago, Katie Hodge started a foundation
to support parents who have lost a child when she moved to Surf City. Read
on...
Woman
to share lesson in coping
Gainesville Sun, October 13, 2003
Valerie Lomano got support from family members, friends and a minister after
her 2-year-old daughter, Michaella, died almost a year ago. More...
Helping Parents Cope With Grief (on
website) (pdf)
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