Ladies,
Have you ever noticed when your looking through the many greeting cards regarding death of pets, death of loved ones, and others -
there are NO cards regarding pregnancy loss, although we all know it is out there. (I am guessing there are cards specific to loss of a child, but I'm not sure.)
This is a petition to try to change that, it was started by someone on another Loss website, maybe we can do something to change things...
All you have to do is click the link and sign your name, you can be as anonomyous as youd like...
Also, I have a friend who works as an editor at Hallmark's headquarters in Kansas City, and I'm going to email her and ask her to please look into this, if only as a personal favor to me.
thank you!!
(((hugs))) to all of you...
Last edited by saluki_fan; 05-26-2005 at 03:42 PM.
Sounds good, Meghan. There are some "loss of your child" ones, but to me something along the lines of dreams being lost, before you even got to know him, etc. would be even better.
Saluki ~ I signed the petition. Let us know what your friend says that works for Hallmark. I'm sure this isn't a card any one wants to write but as we well know there is a need and maybe people wouldn't shy away from sending a card if it said something they couldn't put into words themselves.
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I bought a blank card for hubby for Father's Day. I'll write something in it for him, since I couldn't find an appropriate card. If Hallmark blows off this idea, we should start our own card company!
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I found a card for fathers day last year that just said "i love you on fathers day and every day" I can't decide if I think there should be pregnancy loss cards or not. I tend not to like "specific" sympathy cards. I wish more there were mothers day cards for those whose children were absent.
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I actually saw a pregnancy loss/miscarriage (not sure how they worded it) sympathy card while looking for cards at the Hallmark store in one of our local malls last weekend. I actually thought of you all when I saw it. (Gosh, now I wish I would have picked it up so I could scan it in and show you.) So there's at least one version floating around out there.
My hubby works with a guy who's wife had a baby born still...I had to MAKE a sympathy card for them. I couldn't find anything that really fit. I mean, it's one thing for your gran to die but it's quite another for your BABY to die.
I also think that part of the problem here is the way others perceive pregnancy loss. I know more than one woman who has been made to feel like a freak for morning a loss. Or people expect us to "get over it".
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I was made to feel like a freak after my first loss, just by my DH's family. And it's obvious they feel I should "get over it." I don't care if it makes them uncomfortable, I will NOT forget my losses and I won't let them act like my baby didn't exist. They can't pretend to be so religious and pro-life and then tell me to "move on" and that "my baby wasn't real because it wasn't born yet." It's a huge double standard. But they do that. They don't know about my 2nd and 3rd losses and assuming this one makes it, we don't plan to share the news with them until right before I start showing.
Meghan - I say that if they're that unsupportive, you should go into hiding for the next 8 months and "forget" to send them announcements. I hate awful people.
This is a wonderful idea, I signed and I was number 607, what a good response. I do note that FTD's brand of greeting cards, Renissance have loss of child cards. We recently recieved a pack of them from the company. Unfortunatly, you can't get them any where else but flower shops that carry their cards...
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Meghan - I say that if they're that unsupportive, you should go into hiding for the next 8 months and "forget" to send them announcements. I hate awful people.
Recently I told my mom that if people didn't share my pain with me, I don't want to share my joy either (meaning make a PG announcement or send birth announcements.) She said that her opinion was I was being bitter and tacky. (Me, bitter? Nah.) But you know, I don't really care. I am just not close to my non-immediate family (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.) They don't even TELL me when they are PG, and when they have babies, I may or may not get an email with pictures but never announcements. They all live scattered across the US, from Harrisburg, PA to Portland, OR, and we never see each other. I'm just not too worried about it anymore. Gotta do what's right for me!
Recently I told my mom that if people didn't share my pain with me, I don't want to share my joy either (meaning make a PG announcement or send birth announcements.)
AMEN!
You're not bitter and tacky. To me it's tacky to get a birth announcement without knowing someone was ever pregnant. If I'm important enough to get the damned announcement, then I'm important enough to know about the pregnancy.
And you know what...I don't care anymore if I'm being tacky or bitter. F*ck 'em!
KWIM?
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Petition for PG Loss Sympathy Cards 
#318... wow.. doing a great job!
