Beware those with sensitive constitutions. The pictures on the website are exactly what the above headline says.
His name is Will…. and he is “still”.
If you didn’t know he was stillborn you might have thought he was a baby sleeping in his stroller. That’s because Will is hardly the image most people conjure up when they hear a baby was “stillborn”. But for the lack of a beating heart, he would be just like any other baby. Except for one brief moment in time, his parents will never get to hold him in their arms again.
Some stillborn babies have physical deformities, but they’re few and far between. And some stillborn babies, who are not delivered until days after their death, will not have Will’s pink cheeks. But they are beautiful nonetheless. Ten fingers, ten tiny toes, and a turned up nose. Just “still”.
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For the fight against stillbirth to be successful we need to enlist public aid by helping them to understand that our stillborn children were really B-A-B-I-E-S!We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. We know there must be hundreds of proud stillbirth parents who have a cherished picture of their baby like Will that they are willing to share with the world. Our goal is to assemble enough pictures to be able to demonstrate that yes, these were really B-A-B-I-E-S.
Still my favorite: Whats the difference between a truck load of dead babies and a truck load of bowling balls?
You can’t off load the bowling balls with pitch forks.
My favorite part is the logo with the conehead baby.
A good friend of mine is an OB/GYN and he was looking to start a publication for women that just had babies to discuss breast feeding, postpartum depression etc. and just couldn’t come up with a name. I suggested After Birth, I swear some people just can’t take a joke.
Grief is a personal thing guys, and making fun of those who are hurting is in far worse taste than their site.
It likely will help some of them feel better about life and move on — others will latch onto it and never rise above their grief (these would be the ones that start writing stories about what their baby would have been.)
All in all, there are events in human life that require others to be patient and accepting even if we find it disturbing. You may want to try being human now and then instead of a cardboard cut-out sarcastic twit.
#24 – Oh come on Jim, lighten the fuck up. Good grief (no pun).
Yeap==the whole point of “withdrawing” into your grief is so that you don’t run into asshats that don’t care.
I’m sure Jim (#24) that you don’t mean grieving parents should go out and post on blog sites and expect everyone to kiss their ass do you? No, I thought not.
There is a time and place for everything==reverence, irreverence, tangents, bible thumping, and cartoons.
Dvorak “Uncensored” is clue.
“After Birth”==most excellent.
Their poison wombs are making heaven crowded.
I think that this is a good way for parents to show the world that they in fact are human and a little nuts with grief. It’s a good thing for everyone, no one can make offensive comments on the site (just here) and the parents hopefully don’t implode with depression. It serves a purpose. Laugh or cry or something in between, I bet everyone has at least checked the website and now have an answer to their question.