OUR MISSION
To increase awareness, support research, promote education, and encourage advocacy and family support regarding stillbirth, pregnancy loss, and neonatal death.
OUR VISION
We believe there is great hope for the future to prevent many stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Africa and around the world .
We envision that through the utilization of technology, education, grassroots efforts, and partnership, we can empower families and health professionals to identify and protect vulnerable babies.
WE BELIVE
Expectant parents should be informed about stillbirth, neonatal death risks and educated on ways to reduce any risks
The policies makers should ameliorate the conditions of pregnant women in jail to reduce the risk of still birth and neonatal birth
Standard prenatal protocols should include third trimester ultrasounds to identify known stillbirth risk factors and subsequent management when risk factors are identified.
Pregnancies with risk factors for stillbirth, especially if multiple risk factors exist, should be managed as high-risk pregnancies
Data collected by hospitals about stillbirth and neonatal deaths should be expanded and coordinated among the states to provide better information to medical professionals, researchers, and the public.
Autopsies should be encouraged and performed consistently with established protocols.
Families deserve support and guidance when facing the delivery of a stillborn baby, birth of a baby who will not survive, or death of a baby shortly after birth.
Stillborn babies should be recognized with a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
Stillbirth, neonatal death, birth injury, premature birth, and miscarriages have many common denominators – finding answers to stillbirth may enlighten the path to reducing all poor pregnancy outcomes.
Provide patient education materials to health care organizations and the public to help inform expectant families about any risk that exists and how to manage or reduce that risk
Host Stillbirth Summits – multi-day conferences that bring together researchers, health professionals, bereaved families, and stillbirth advocates to learn about emerging evidence in stillbirth prevention and care and work together to support all efforts
Provide family support materials and companion services to bereaved families
Support and encourage legislation at state and federal levels that provide support for stillbirth prevention efforts and improve care of families experiencing perinatal loss
Provide online video support groups for
bereaved parents
grandparents and extended families
couples experiencing pregnancies after loss
parents challenged by parenting living children after a loss.
fathers
coping with infant death
Raise awareness of issues related to pregnancy and infant loss and stillbirth prevention
