Knitting!!!

So, I've been doing some knitting. You faithful readers will remember a few months ago I mentioned that my lovely sister was teaching me to knit. Well, I started with a blanket!

Ta da!

And I moved on to a baby hat! This was donated to Lisa (Of Lisa's Precious Pedi's) for her sister-in-law.

And then I moved on to a Jester Hat. This was fun. I made this for Calum...

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update

Today was the day FF told me to POAS.

I'm not gonna!

Yesterday AF showed...

So, once again, no babies.....yet..... ;) Pin It

Officially a stalker...

I have become obssessive. It's a slower day today, and I have found myself staring at my chart all.day.long.... repeatedly. If I go more than 10 minutes without looking at it, I have to pull it back up again. And then I just stare at it. Willing it to tell me something. It's as if I think that the next time I look at it, it will have

* * * P R E G N A N T * * *

written all over it.

Well, trust me, it doesn't work that way.....

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National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

October 15th is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day in the United States. More than 25,000 children are stillborn in the United States every year leaving mothers, entire families and communities devastated. Estimates of the rate of occurrence of stillbirth make it at least as common as autism.
Stillbirth is not an intractable problem. Greater research would likely significantly reduce its incidence, but good research requires good data. H.R. 5979: Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act is under consideration by Congress. This proposed bill would standardize stillbirth investigation and diagnosis, thus providing more data for the needed research. Better research means fewer children born still.

On October 15th, remember the thousands of unfinished children lost and the families who remain to grieve them. Honor them by taking action. Let's help pass H.R. 5979.

Action Steps:

Step 1. Use Your Blog to Enlist Others
-Copy the contents of this entire post and publish it on your blog immediately.
GOAL: Enlist 10 of your readers to spread the word

Step 2. Use Your E-mail to Enlist Others
-E-mail 5 bloggers and ask them (nicely and in an unspammy way) to publish these action steps on their blog. Consider contacting celebrity bloggers, political bloggers, medical bloggers, or bloggers who are not part of your reading community.
GOAL: Enlist 3 bloggers outside of your normal blog sphere to spread the word in other online communities.

Step 3. Help Pass the Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act
-By October 15th, publish a post on your blog supporting H.R. 5979 Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act. For maximum impact, title your post: "Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act."

GOAL: 1,000,000 Google results on October 15th when that term is searched for. Currently, Google only returns 20,400 pages - most of which have nothing to do with the bill.

If you could all please help spread the word we could really get this going...

...and in related news, October 19-25, 2008 is Resolve's National Infertility Awareness Week. Pin It