July 26, 2011 at 11:31 am · Filed under Advocacy and tagged: Faces of Loss, Kristin Cook, Pepsi Challenge
Kristin over at Faces of Loss is just 14 positions away from earning a $25,000 grant from Pepsi to get booklets printed up and sent to hospitals. If she makes her goal, when a mom goes to the ER with a miscarriage or stillbirth, she will go home with information.
How often can you influence things–actually make a difference. How often can you take what has happened to you and turn it into something that helps someone else?
Today you can.
It’s so easy. Vote. As I write this, Kristin is in position 29. A GREAT acheivement. But she has to be in the top 15 to get the grant.
Voting is free and easy. In fact, if you are on Facebook, it takes maybe 20 seconds to click over, log in using Facebook, and cast your vote. If you are not on Facebook, fill in a little information for Pepsi so you can vote.
Here’s where to go:
http://www.refresheverything.com/facesofloss
You can vote every day. If you drink Pepsi already, you can “Power Vote.” There are codes inside the packaging on Pepsi that gets you bonus votes.
Please, go do this. It’s so simple, and will make an incredible difference in thousans of women’s lives.
Thank you. Really, thank you.
July 1, 2011 at 1:57 pm · Filed under Important Features, Miscarriage
So many of you are in a tough place. Bleeding, cramping, worried about a miscarriage, and you can’t talk about it because sometimes no one even knows you are pregnant. Those hours where you wait for your doctor to call back, or the days waiting for test results or an appointment can be excruiating. I know. I’ve been there.
So to give you ladies in this place somewhere to go to get instant help, I created a private group on Facebook. People who are not members cannot see the posts in this group (and you have to be logged into Facebook to even see enough to join). We’ve left the name of the group and the description purposefully generic so that no one will know what the group is about.
In this place, you can talk to each other in the very intense few days between when you think you might be having a miscarriage and when you know for sure what is happening. Everyone gets a lot of attention and support and can compare symptoms and how their doctors are handling things.
I spent seven agonizing days after my water broke at 10 weeks waiting to find out if my baby was alive or not. I did nothing but cry and sleep and lie in bed, typing in web sites and looking for answers until my doctor would do a second sonogram to check for growth. You can read that whole story here.
I know this will be a very fluid group, as most of you will find out your baby is fine and will move back into pregnancy groups. But we do hope to provide quick support (we have women in many time zones). You’re much more likely to get a quick answer from me or one of the many women who are there right now, or have just been there.
I really wish such a group was never needed, that we all coasted through our pregnancies with nothing more than a little nausea and sleepiness. But you might have bleeding. Cramps might scare you. You might stop feeling the baby kick. And you’ll need someone to talk to. We’ll be there.
May 7, 2011 at 11:37 am · Filed under Holidays, Miscarriage, Mothers, Related Movies-Songs
UPDATE: The three Olsen angels won the movie credit!
Over at A Place for Our Angels: Memorials for Miscarriage and Stillbirth Babies, we’re having a HUGE Mother’s Day contest. We’ve already given away several books to moms on the page.
At midnight on Friday, May 13, we’ll be giving away something extra special. We’ll donate $100 to the movie Peekaboo in your baby’s honor to get the baby’s name in the Thank You credits. You will also get a DVD copy of the movie when it comes out.
Peekaboo is a movie about a mother who loses her stillborn triplets. Read more about them in the post below.
To enter the contest, go to A Place for Our Angels and post a PICTURE of anything that reminds you of your baby (bear, jewelry, sonogram, photographs) between now and 10 P.M. Central Time on Sunday. Don’t forget to tell us his or her name!
Find a picture and click on the image below to go! 
May 5, 2011 at 11:39 am · Filed under Grief, Holidays, Mothers
Mother’s Day is a really tough day for a lot of people. I blog about the holidays all the time (read some here).
I know many of you this year were expecting a baby, but tragedy struck, and this Mother’s Day will be spent in grief rather than celebration.
Other Moms will be celebrating with their children, but lost their own moms or grandmothers this last year, making this the first Mother’s Day without them. I lost two grandmothers last fall myself.
I’m asking everyone I know to reach out fellow grieving moms on Mother’s Day in a very simple way.
I have designed several digital cards that recognize that Mother’s Day often comes with mixed feelings. These cards emphasize peace and love for those who may not feel joyous on the holiday this year.
So choose the one that you think fits that person in your life who may be having a bittersweet Mother’s Day. Then right click to Save As and email it this weekend.
Feel free to upload them to Facebook if that’s where your friends are.
They are also already uploaded on Facebook if you just want to use the “share” feature. Find them on one of these pages
My Personal Facebook Page (You don’t have to be my “friend” to see them, but feel free to friend me!)
A Place for Our Angels Facebook Page
Casey Shay Press Facebook Page
And bloggers, feel free to post them in your own blog posts to help them spread. They are free to use for personal use.
Even if you aren’t close to some of your Facebook friends, take note if you saw things happening to them this year. Do something. Remember. Reach out. It’s amazing what a difference such a simple thing can make.
May 3, 2011 at 10:46 am · Filed under Related Movies-Songs
Everything is looking so amazing for Peekaboo, a film being produced in the UK about a mother who loses her triplets.
Take a look!
Peekaboo Post Production fundraising pitch from Big Buddha Films on Vimeo.
I’m not sure those of us in the US will get to see the movie unless we donate and get a copy that way. If you want it (and what a great thing to do–support them, get a copy, and host a screening with other moms who may have lost a baby), go to the page link below to support them!
http://www.indiegogo.com/Peekaboo-1
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