Friends, any of you who frequent my blog know that I lost an infant, Kathryn, two days after birth. If you’ve visited recently, you know that recently a friend of mine delivered her full term baby stillborn, which prompted me to write my post on helping a friend survive the first year after pregnancy or infant loss.
I have not written much about the impact of our infant loss on our family, because it is too deep and quite frankly too personal for me to put out there. But I will tell you, the loss of a baby, a child, can have such a tremendous impact on your relationships, your marriages… your life. And it has impacted my personal relationships, especially my marriage. My husband and I have grieved differently, and it has been so very difficult.
We need to be able to talk about infant and pregnancy loss. We need to be able to understand how much the family unit is impacted. We need people to know that it is a life changing, forever impacting experience.
When I saw that there is a movie coming out about pregnancy loss, in particular stillbirth, I knew this was a project I wanted to support. And I decided to become a local leader to help bring this film to everyone.
RETURN TO ZERO
The first film ever created with stillbirth as its central theme. You already know we have an amazing cast (MINNIE DRIVER, PAUL ADELSTEIN, ALFRED MOLINA, CONNIE NIELSEN, KATHY BAKER, ANDREA ANDERS and SARAH JONES) and we believe in our hearts that we have created a beautiful and touching film that will change how people view stillbirth and the effect it has on parents, relationships, families, and communities.
Please watch this clip about the movie:
I Became a Local Leader
What does this mean? It means that I have decided to become a voice for this film in my community and circles. A voice to help make everyone aware of this film and to encourage you to pledge to go see it. It’s a story you need to know.
Help Break the Silence about infant and pregnancy loss!
My goal is to get at least 100 people to pledge to see it. You can fill out the oh so simple pledge form (absolutely no money!). Please put “Alexa B” as your local leader! (I get nothing for this, just the satisfaction of making sure this message is spread far and wide!)
What exactly are you pledging? To see the movie on it’s opening weekend (which is TBD at this point.) We are trying to get 150,000 to sign the pledge before June 20th, to ensure a wide opening weekend across the world.
But more importantly, you are pledging to LISTEN, to HEAR, to BREAK THE SILENCE, and to let all of us know that we are NOT ALONE.
Sign the RETURN TO ZERO PLEDGE HERE.
This is important to me and I’m sure to anyone else in your life that has lost a pregnancy or infant. Will you please help by signing the pledge and sharing, sharing, sharing!
Will you pledge to see the film?
xoxo
Alexa B
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Gayle Haddock says
May 23, 2013 at 9:09 amThis is wonderful, Alexa! I got chills watching the video clip – so thankful that this topic is being addressed instead of avoided. I just signed the pledge and will help spread the word!
katbiggie says
May 23, 2013 at 11:51 amYay, thank you so much Gayle! We’ll all have to go see it together, cause I’m sure it’s going to be an emotional film!!
Janine Huldie says
May 23, 2013 at 9:18 amOh totally signing it and just hoping that my gang let’s me have a bit of a break to go see it now. Sounds like a wonderful movie and seriously thanks for sharing it here with us!! 🙂
katbiggie says
May 23, 2013 at 11:48 amThank you very much Janine – and take your friends!! 🙂 Please share, share, share!
Ilene says
May 23, 2013 at 9:51 amConsider me pledged.
katbiggie says
May 23, 2013 at 11:48 amYou are my hero! 🙂
another jennifer says
May 23, 2013 at 10:01 amWhat a wonderful project to be involved with, Alexa. Heading over to pledge now!
katbiggie says
May 23, 2013 at 11:49 amYay for people that care! Thanks so much Jennifer!
Heather O. says
May 23, 2013 at 10:18 amI pledged for my family! Thank you for being a voice for this film, Alexa! (And I’m so glad you like the name drawing… I saw it in my fb feed just now and grinned!)
katbiggie says
May 23, 2013 at 11:49 amThank you so much Heather! Yes, I love the name drawing! LOVE it! I was waiting for the right occasion to use it, and then this came along! 🙂
Michelle says
May 23, 2013 at 12:05 pmDone! And I am sharing on twitter too!
katbiggie says
May 23, 2013 at 12:27 pmThank you! You are wonderful!
Tiffany says
May 23, 2013 at 12:07 pmI pledged for baby Alexa and all of my TTTS moms living this nightmare..
katbiggie says
May 23, 2013 at 12:28 pmToo many of us. Thank you for pledging! Sorry for your loss as well. xoxo ~Alexa B.
Marie Oliveira says
May 23, 2013 at 12:47 pmI hadn’t heard about this movie so thanks for blogging about it! I signed the pledge!
katbiggie says
May 28, 2013 at 12:45 pmYay! Thank you Marie! I appreciate it!
Tamara says
May 24, 2013 at 11:43 amI will definitely pledge to see the film. It has not happened to me but has happened to many people I know and love. Chills to watch this clip.
katbiggie says
May 24, 2013 at 12:35 pmWonderful! Thank you for your support!
katbiggie says
May 28, 2013 at 12:45 pmI appreciate that greatly! Please spread the word!
Lorna K says
May 24, 2013 at 5:08 pmThank you for writing about this important topic, this has happened to people close to me. I wouldn’t know about the movie if you had not posted about it. I’m on my way to sign the pledge now.
Lorna
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katbiggie says
May 28, 2013 at 12:47 pmThank you Lorna! Yes, it is a terrible thing to experience!
Pary Moppins says
May 25, 2013 at 12:06 pmI am so impressed by your commitment to breaking the silence of a difficult to breach subject – the loss of babies. Well done for seeking out ways to move forward.
katbiggie says
May 28, 2013 at 12:46 pmThank you so much Julie!
Chris Carter says
May 27, 2013 at 12:37 amThank GOD I decided to go back in my hundreds of emails to sift through old notifications I missed… SO glad I did Alexa! I wouldn’t miss this for the WORLD!! Going over to pledge now…
katbiggie says
May 28, 2013 at 12:47 pmI’m so glad you found it and came back to it too! Thanks for pledging and please spread the word! I’d love it if you’d tweet and share this! Thanks!
Katie Vyktoriah says
May 29, 2013 at 11:42 amI was not aware of this at all, so thank you for posting about it. I can’t sign the pledge, as I honestly am not able to get out to see it. But I pledge that I WILL see it at SOME point. My brother died at 3 months, and I have had 2 miscarriages. I think its a subject worth talking about.
katbiggie says
May 29, 2013 at 10:36 pmI am so very sorry Katie! I had no idea! It is indeed worth talking about, and I understand why you will be unable to see it right now!
Lady Jennie says
June 3, 2013 at 1:15 pmI didn’t know, Alexa, and it is such a blow to the gut to learn about this – and now your friend too. It hurts. I will tweet about this, but I don’t think it’s likely I will be able to see it from here. Also, I try to avoid watching/reading fiction that I know is sad. I have had several of my own griefs and struggle with depression, so I try to filter what will do me good.
But I’ll tweet!
katbiggie says
June 3, 2013 at 2:49 pmI completely understand. I’m not sure how I will handle it either, but I will take an army of friends and plan on going for drinks and laughs afterwards! Thank you so much for taking the time to look at it and share it!