Living the Loss Life

Stillbirth Prevention & Advocacy

Episode Summary

Amanda from Episode 12 is back! She talks about her recent efforts in DC to create awareness around stillbirth prevention and making moves to stop it. With the organization, Measure the Placenta, she hopes to help make some change in our prenatal healthcare in the US. She is a wealth of knowledge on this subject and you will learn so much listening to her. This is for anyone that needs light shed on this subject to help others understand what stillbirth actually is and how we can try to stop it from happening in the future... Here are some great links: Find Amanda here! @orangeafmama https://www.instagram.com/p/CxbKNcxv5Us/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Measure The Placenta info: https://www.measuretheplacenta.org/partners-and-friends?fbclid=IwAR0vqCG-87yUHP_6xd-eQ8IZkIf9qQvg60wnE3_atqgqeS8j4P9eghandV4 Info on the Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act: @healthybirthdayinc https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx3OP2ZujXv/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Info on Measure the Placenta: @measuretheplacenta https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx8corjrTvG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Dr Kliman information: https://medicine.yale.edu/obgyn/kliman/placenta/pregnancyloss/ This is a petition to let your members of Congress know why their continued support for both the Stillbirth Health Improvement and Education for Autumn Act (H.R. 5012/S. 2647) and the Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act (H.R. 4581/S. 2231) is crucial to each bills success AND to urge those, who have not supported them in the past, to do so. Link Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKUYiUeJgboC6QnWjPhJMi0_J-amL4tRPWPEzkS2lyhLoQeQ/viewform Placenta Pathology Findings: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43032-023-01344-3?fbclid=IwAR0DNO4av7g_hOCyuwPUzNEgxwAvpFoDiEwTOALbVNJ8x-31QBvPS0Nn6AI

Episode Notes

Amanda from Episode 12 is back! She talks about her recent efforts in DC to create awareness around stillbirth prevention and making moves to stop it. With the organization, Measure the Placenta, she hopes to help make some change in our prenatal healthcare in the US.  She is a wealth of knowledge on this subject and you will learn so much listening to her. This is for anyone that needs light shed on this subject to help others understand what stillbirth actually is and how we can try to stop it from happening in the future...

Here are some great links that we discussed:

Find Amanda's post about DC here! @orangeafmama 

Measure The Placenta info 

Info on the Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act

Info on Measure the Placenta: @measuretheplacenta 

Dr Kliman information

This is a petition to let your members of Congress know why their continued support for both the Stillbirth Health Improvement and Education for Autumn Act (H.R. 5012/S. 2647) and the Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act (H.R. 4581/S. 2231) is crucial to each bills success AND to urge those, who have not supported them in the past, to do so. Link Here: PETITION

Placenta Pathology Findings