Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day: Your stories
On October 15, 2014, from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., we dedicated our entire Twitter feed to Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. Here are your stories.
One in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, but somehow we're still not talking about it. “It feels like this silent shame—something we carry around like a dirty little secret," says Sandy Wynia Katz. "But so many people have had them.” That’s why we decided to talk in the most open and honest way possible about this difficult topic. In addition to sharing three women's powerful stories and providing the latest research, information and resources, we dedicated our @todaysparent Twitter feed to this important topic and to a community of voices typically hiding in the shadows of anonymous message boards.
On Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day, October 15, 2014, we offered up our Twitter feed from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. to talking openly about #babyloss. Here's what happened.
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Haley Overland is a writer/editor at Today's Parent. Our resident celebrity queen, she dishes out all the sweetest scoop on celebrity families at our Celebrity Candy blog. She has interviewed celeb moms like Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba and Jillian Michaels, and has shared her expertise on CTV’s ETalk. Haley also has an award-winning personal blog, CheatyMonkey.com, where she writes about everything from motherhood to yoga, her dog “Betty White” and what it's like to be Clive Owen's girlfriend. Haley has two kids, whom she fondly refers to online as “The Monkey” and “The Rascal.”