My dad called me a few hours ago and pointed me to an article in the Atlanta newspaper about a new law just enacted to allow parents of stillborn babies to request birth certificates!
I loved the article--it described perfectly how I felt--I left the hospital with Rees' foot prints and hand prints and a blanket they wrapped him in, but I wanted something official showing he was born. It doesn't change anything, but having that birth certificate is huge to me.
Apparently you have to request a fetal death certificate before you can request a stillborn birth certificate so I called today and left a message for the person over that.
I wish I had known this legislation was going on--I would have loved to support it, but at least it passed. Anyway, this is the group that spearheaded the legislation: Share Atlanta
5 comments:
That is awesome!! I wish we could have supported it when it was being decided!!
that is great! I wish I could have had something like that. That's the worst thing about miscarrying, no one officially sees your baby as a human, so you don't get to officially mourn for it's death no matter how real they really are.
Melinda, that is so exciting. I hope you are able to work out the issues with actually trying to get the certificate soon!
This is so good, I am so glad that they passed this. I think that it would really help women in the mourning process after miscarrying.
This is so good, I am so glad that they passed this. I think that it would really help women in the mourning process after miscarrying.
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