NBC Today Show Topic "Broken Womb" - Thurs, Oct 12, 2006

saluki_fan · 10-09-2006, 11:06 PM

Please join the nation for the airing of "Broken Womb" on Thursday, October 12th, 2006. NBC's Today Show will have Rob and Kathy Adzich, bereavd parents who have experienced three losses, in studio with Meredith Vieira and their amazing surrogate mother, Stephanie. A story of tragic losses to heart-warming triumph...bring your kleenex! Air time is currently slated for 8:00 a.m., with a possibility of extending into the 9:00 hour. Huge responses to shows are heard, according to NBC's producers. Please watch and respond to Today@NBC.com to share with them how important bereavement support is and that more airtime of the grief experience related to the death of a baby is crucial to families around the nation. It is imperative that we give grief a voice! Visit www.trustingthejourney.com for more information about Rob and Kathy's story.

Source: www.nationalshareoffice.com

Otilia98 · 10-10-2006, 03:35 AM

Sounds good! I will have to miss it as I will be at work

enits · 10-11-2006, 04:45 PM

I'll have to record it and watch it when I have time. Thanks for spreading the news Meghan!

VivC · 10-11-2006, 06:13 PM

Thank you, Meghan. I would have missed this. I'm not a Today show fan (Katie Couric was way too perky for so early in the morning), so I wouldn't have watched. It's also a good chance to see if I like Meredith's hosting!

Bunnyscott · 10-13-2006, 02:11 AM

I missed this story on the Today Show this morning, even though I'm a daily viewer, so I caught up on the web.

I got chills. So much of their story felt familiar to me, as I'm sure it will to many women here.

I just remember that awful day in the hospital when we lost the twins. We were absolutely in shock. We had to make all sorts of decisions and they didn't have a special place for us to be. I stayed on the L & D ward through the next day. I couldn't go home because I had a possible placenta acreta and had to be hauled about for an MRI and talk of a second D & C. We met with the social worker for about a half hour on that second day, but I could have used her at 8:00 p.m the night before. No one else was equipped to help us through.

Unfortunately, infant and pregnancy loss is not uncommon. It is something that EVERY hospital with an L & D ward (and some without) will have to face at one time or another. I definitely think that most good sized hospitals should have a social worker on call to meet with parents (if so desired by the parents) as soon as possible after their loss. AND grieving parents should have a safe place to be where they are isolated from the maternity/L & D ward if they need, or want, to stay at the hospital.

So I think the Jakob's Room project is a fabulous idea and I intend to support it any way I can.

VivC · 10-13-2006, 03:26 PM

What a sad story. It rang all too familiar to me, too.

The hospital where I had Rivi did allow me to stay a little longer - I think that was because I had an infection, though.

They didn't know where to put me, either. On the L&D ward, babies were everywhere. They put me in antenatal, but there, I could hear the other babies' heartbeats on monitors, and it hurt so much knowing that Rivi's had stopped.

They were also very good about letting us see him when we wanted to. They put us in the smaller chapel, which is conveniently right across from the NICU. We were able to spend as long as we wanted the day he died, and we went back to see him the next morning, before we left.

I agree about the social workers - the hospital only had one, and she was very understanding, but we needed her immediately after he died - she didn't come for several hours. After I had Dominici, though, she came to see me and gave me PPD literature and a number to call if my grief over Rivi started to interfere with mothering Dominici. She even offered to have my doc start me on antidepressants right away - wish I'd listened, 'cause that PPD kicked my ass.

Every family should have as much time as they need to say goodbye, and I love the project this couple's working on.