Thursday, October 7, 2010
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Dolls for Daughters® and Kenzi’s Kidz was founded after Kenzi was born sleeping on January 23, 2007. Her mother, Jessica, wanted to honor Kenzi the best way that she could. Dolls for Daughters® was started and has grown with the support of our community.
We are pleased to kick off our Dolls for Daughters® and Toys for Boys® Toy Drive each October in honor of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.
Here is more information on the history of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month:
Each year, approximately a million pregnancies in the U.S. end in miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of the newborn child. National observance of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month offers us the opportunity to increase our understanding of the great tragedy involved in the deaths of unborn and newborn babies. It also enables us to consider how, as individuals and communities, we can meet the needs of bereaved parents and family members on work to prevent causes of these problems.
Health care professionals recognize that trends of recent years, such as smaller family size and postponement of childbearing, adds another dimension of poignancy to the grief of parents who have lost infants. More than 700 local, national and international support groups are supplying programs and strategies designed to help parents cope with their loss. Parents who have suffered their own losses, health care professionals and specially trained hospital staff members are helping newly bereaved parents deal constructively with loss…
The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 314, has designated the month of October, as “Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month” and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this month.
NOW, THEREFORE, I RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of October as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fifth day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirteenth.
Ronald Reagan
Former President
United States of America
If you or someone you know has experienced a loss, our deepest sympathy is with you and your family.
