I need to pass this on...I have not personally been affected by it, but have been affected by reading my fellow bloggers' stories and their heartbreaking losses. I feel as I know the "doodles" and every time I see a butterfly I make a wish for them, won't you?

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October 15th is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day in the United States. More than 25,000 children are stillborn in the United States every year leaving mothers, entire families and communities devastated. Estimates of the rate of occurrence of stillbirth make it at least as common as autism.

Stillbirth is not an intractable problem. Greater research would likely significantly reduce its incidence, but good research requires good data. H.R. 5979: Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act is under consideration by Congress. This proposed bill would standardize stillbirth investigation and diagnosis, thus providing more data for the needed research. Better research means fewer children born still.

On October 15th, remember the thousands of unfinished children lost and the families who remain to grieve them. Honor them by taking action. Let's help pass H.R. 5979.

Action Steps:

Step 1. Use Your Blog to Enlist Others
-Copy the contents of this entire post and publish it on your blog immediately.

GOAL: Enlist 10 of your readers to spread the word

Step 2. Use Your E-mail to Enlist Others
-E-mail 5 bloggers and ask them (nicely and in an unspammy way) to publish these action steps on their blog. Consider contacting celebrity bloggers, political bloggers, medical bloggers, or bloggers who are not part of your reading community.

GOAL: Enlist 3 bloggers outside of your normal blog sphere to spread the word in other online communities.

Step 3. Help Pass the Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act
-By October 15th, publish a post on your blog supporting H.R. 5979 Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act. For maximum impact, title your post: "Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act."

GOAL: 1,000,000 Google results on October 15th when that term is searched for. Currently, Google only returns 20,400 pages - most of which have nothing to do with the bill.

Thursday...Blah

Hello!

Not much new here, still broke...just kidding, well maybe not - just trying to plug along.

I am so stressed out about the economy...will I have a job tomorrow? Was it a good move to come to my new job? Was I to sacrifice my well-being by staying at my old one? I hate when I start to question things. My husband often tells me that I should put it in God's hand - he never gives me more than I can handle. Well, not being raised with religion, this is kind of foreign to me. I know about God, but no to the extent as others on here. It does not make me feel uncomfortable, just I believe what I believe and that is=there is a God - I just don't take someone else's word for what he is capable of. I know he is a healer, I saw that with my son at 3 months old. I put my complete faith that God would heal him and he did! So, here is a snip-it from when Tanner got sick...

Let me start by saying this...Tanner and his cousin are joined at the hip...they love each other so much. She is 6 and he is 4. She is in school, but each day she is not with him she brings her homework and they do it together. I think he will be fine when he does go to Kindergarten next year...anyway - Tanner was life-flighted to Davis 4 days after being diagnosed with Meningitis (proper name and spelling of full name will come later) and was in ICU. My husband's dad came the next day and said that he knew that Tanner was going to be just fine...I kind of shrugged it off as I was sitting right next to him watching my baby suffer with tubes and IV's coming out of him...with an unsure of prognosis and what the future held.

Well Maddie being 2 at the time, woke up on that Sunday morning before church and while she was getting ready, said to my sister-in-law "Mom, Tanner is going to be just fine, - OKAY READY FOR CHILLS?????? - as she continues on..."Jesus came and sat on my bed last night and said the Tanner would be just fine and to not worry he would take care of everything." If you didn't believe in God before I bet you thought about it now....

I will leave you with that as I have tears in my eyes and all of those panic feelings are back...

Signing off for now, Jenny