With the rate of stillbirths now topping that of infants who die before their first birthdays, employers — and society in general — must become more empathetic to families grieving the death of a baby through stillbirth or miscarriage and, in many cases, facing a crisis of faith, a Baylor University researcher said.
While infant mortality in the United States has declined 11 percent since 2006, little progress has been made in reducing stillbirth and miscarriage rates, according to a recent report by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Research shows that approximately one in four women will experience a miscarriage, a loss before the 20th week of pregnancy, but it’s not something that we are comfortable talking about,” said Joyce Nuner, an associate professor of child and family studies at Baylor. “It’s a silent sorrow.”
Nuner helped form Cradled, a Waco-based nonprofit serving bereaved families.
[For more of this story, written by Terry Goodrich, go to https://baptistnews.com/cultur...illbirth-miscarriage]
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