I am going to tell you something I hope you'll never know. I'll tell you how a heart can break and tears can constant flow. I lost my baby boy, you see. So precious in my eyes. God chose to take his hand one-day and led him to the skies. But please do not forget my child, he was a person too. And forever he will live inside of me and you. So, please don't ever tell me that time will heal my pain. Because not even time, can bring him back again! Just tell me he is happy in that land up above. He's snuggled in an angel's wings, all wrapped up in our love.
4.5 million stillbirths occur each year worldwide according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In developed countries, one in 100-200 pregnancies ends in stillbirth. Many of these deaths are avoidable. The statistics for Canada in 2001 are 2,038, an increase of 3.5% from 2000 (Statistics Canada). Current statistics are not available.
As the parent to a still born child it feels as though no one understands the pain and isolation experienced, stillbirth destroys hopes and dearms. Don't let stillbirth destroy your dreams; know that it could happen to your family, prevention is key. Stillbirth can be prevented; the key to prevention is in education and playing a proactive role in your prenatal care. If you are expecting or plan to become pregnant educate yourself so your child does not become a statistic, playing a proactive role in your care for the benefit of your child, knowing what is happening within and knowing that your child is safe could mean the difference between life and death for your child.
If still born parents are to change the way our society treats stillbirth, we have to raise awareness, so our precious children are not forgotten. Stillbirth occurs often, stillbirth losses are more then that of SIDS, yet there is a failure to research why it occurs, and to implement proactive prenatal care as a method of prevention. Are our loss not equality as important to those from SIDS? Are our children non-existent because society views our children as mere products of conception, to be nothing more then simply a fetus? Do they not realize that these are our children, our future?
"First you have to throw a rock in the water to make it ripple; We are the beginning of that ripple." Carlos Santana.
IT'S OFFICAL!!!
October 15th
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
New Brunswick, Canada
Let us know you stopped in and what your thoughts are.
Please take a moment to sign Riley's Guest Book
It means so much to his family.
I dedicate this memorial to the babies who have lost their lives as a result of stillbirth and to the families who have lost a future with those children. To the memory of Riley Joseph (RJ) Duclos-Roach.
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For the Love of Riley
For the Love of Riley is designed and maintained in memory of :
Riley Joseph Duclos-Roach
Born Still September 26th, 2003 @ 43.2 wks
By Riley's Aunt :
Terra-Lynn Coggan
