Stillbirth Quotes

• Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Grieving, Sky

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have left upon our hearts

  Dorothy Ferguson

  Miscarriage, Heart, Our World

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• Things must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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• For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round.
  Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Circles, Phases

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Grieving, Boys

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.138, Egmont UK

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• When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, their isn't a word to describe them. This month recognizes the loss so many parents experience across the United States and around the world. It is also meant to inform and provide resources for parents who have lost children due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, stillbirths, birth defects, SIDS, and other causes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Pregnancy, Miscarriage

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• Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

  C. S. Lewis

  Home, Mean, Sky

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• How can you sustain life? [Dan] Fogelman is magic, and I think the other scripts of his that I've read for this show specifically are as beautiful as the pilot script [of This Is Us]. And he said it in a meeting [regarding the stillbirth of a child], "You can't kill a baby every week." But I think the idea that you can have these impactful moments that are as heightened as the loss of a child - it's life.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Beautiful, Baby, Children

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• Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

  C. S. Lewis

  Shells, Trouble, Force

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur outside the uterus, a situation that never results in a live baby and is life-threatening to the woman. Furthermore, the risk of having an unexplained stillbirth doubles when a woman has had a previous c-section.

  Marsden Wagner

  Baby, Women, Pregnancy

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• My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Grieving, Ideas

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Cutting, Loss

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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