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After the second stillbirth, doctors told Robert and Ann they could never have kids. This left them devasted. One day while performing at the University of Guelph theatre, the personal poem in his head suddenly manifested into a larger story that he poured out on stage. 🧵4/10

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In the early-1980s, he and his wife Ann, went through two pregnancies that resulted in stillbirths. After each stillbirth, Munsch silently sang in his head a four-line poem he wrote called Love You Forever. He called it his way of crying to deal with the loss. 🧵3/10

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“Inside this house where everything shifts on bad hips. Sleeping dog paddles through dreams.” An excerpt from Dara-Lyn Shrager’s “Stillbirth,” which is forthcoming in the Fall 2024 collection of Online Exclusives from West Trade Review. Hear the full poem: https://buff.ly/3XVUSRS

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While a number of countries have good infant mortality (post birth data) relatively few have good stillbirth (surviving to birth) information before the later part of the 20th century. On big exception is Sweden, from which we know the stillbirth rate began dropping in the early 1940s

Stillbirths as a proportion of live births were pretty constant from 1775 to 1942, then began to become much rarer.
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Twice I tried posting this to FB. I even restarted my computer, thinking there was a bug on my end. Appears that it's a FB "feature" to block stories like this. My mom lost a full-term baby girl to stillbirth. At nearly 80 she still mourns that loss. This is ghoulish.

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