Amy M. V. Bowers, PhD
@dramybowers.bsky.social
Licensed clinical psychologist in Arlington, VA, US. :: I provide individual psychotherapy with adults and write about stillbirth trauma, loss, recovery, and healing. dramybowers.com
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📢 Did you know?
The International Stillbirth Alliance has joined the @who.int campaign #HealthyBeginnings, #HopefulFutures with its own year-long global effort for #stillbirth.
This campaign is called #IAmISA.
Catch up on all the posts so far at @isastillbirth.bsky.social
#EndStillbirths
The International Stillbirth Alliance has joined the @who.int campaign #HealthyBeginnings, #HopefulFutures with its own year-long global effort for #stillbirth.
This campaign is called #IAmISA.
Catch up on all the posts so far at @isastillbirth.bsky.social
#EndStillbirths
June 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
📢 Did you know?
The International Stillbirth Alliance has joined the @who.int campaign #HealthyBeginnings, #HopefulFutures with its own year-long global effort for #stillbirth.
This campaign is called #IAmISA.
Catch up on all the posts so far at @isastillbirth.bsky.social
#EndStillbirths
The International Stillbirth Alliance has joined the @who.int campaign #HealthyBeginnings, #HopefulFutures with its own year-long global effort for #stillbirth.
This campaign is called #IAmISA.
Catch up on all the posts so far at @isastillbirth.bsky.social
#EndStillbirths
I choose to talk about my experience because #stillbirth cannot be tiptoed around or whispered about as “unimaginable.” Babies are #stillborn at alarming rates worldwide. It is a public health crisis. Parents are grieving and traumatized. #IamISA #EndStillbirths #HopefulFutures
“I first learned about stillbirth at the time that I had one”
@dramybowers.bsky.social - a psychologist and bereaved mother - shares how denial and silence surround #stillbirth.
She’s breaking the #stigma.
#IamISA #EndStillbirths #HopefulFutures
@dramybowers.bsky.social - a psychologist and bereaved mother - shares how denial and silence surround #stillbirth.
She’s breaking the #stigma.
#IamISA #EndStillbirths #HopefulFutures
June 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I choose to talk about my experience because #stillbirth cannot be tiptoed around or whispered about as “unimaginable.” Babies are #stillborn at alarming rates worldwide. It is a public health crisis. Parents are grieving and traumatized. #IamISA #EndStillbirths #HopefulFutures
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Join MARCH & the @isastillbirth.bsky.social for a seminar exploring @unicef.org’s new report, Standing up for Stillbirth.
Stakeholders from across the globe will discuss the latest data and report findings, as well as the key next steps for action.
Info 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Stakeholders from across the globe will discuss the latest data and report findings, as well as the key next steps for action.
Info 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
June 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Join MARCH & the @isastillbirth.bsky.social for a seminar exploring @unicef.org’s new report, Standing up for Stillbirth.
Stakeholders from across the globe will discuss the latest data and report findings, as well as the key next steps for action.
Info 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Stakeholders from across the globe will discuss the latest data and report findings, as well as the key next steps for action.
Info 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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Meet @amandarosswhite.bsky.social. Amanda lost her sons Nate and Sam to #stillbirth in 2007. She now teaches nurses to care
with empathy and evidence.
Amanda's work reminds us that respectful care changes everything.
#IamISA #EndStillbirths #HealthyBeginnings #HopefulFutures
with empathy and evidence.
Amanda's work reminds us that respectful care changes everything.
#IamISA #EndStillbirths #HealthyBeginnings #HopefulFutures
May 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Meet @amandarosswhite.bsky.social. Amanda lost her sons Nate and Sam to #stillbirth in 2007. She now teaches nurses to care
with empathy and evidence.
Amanda's work reminds us that respectful care changes everything.
#IamISA #EndStillbirths #HealthyBeginnings #HopefulFutures
with empathy and evidence.
Amanda's work reminds us that respectful care changes everything.
#IamISA #EndStillbirths #HealthyBeginnings #HopefulFutures
“My advice to anyone offering their sympathies to someone who has suffered pregnancy loss is not to try to put any kind of positive spin on it. Any sentence that starts with ‘At least…’ is definitely best left unsaid.”
May 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“My advice to anyone offering their sympathies to someone who has suffered pregnancy loss is not to try to put any kind of positive spin on it. Any sentence that starts with ‘At least…’ is definitely best left unsaid.”
Reposted by Amy M. V. Bowers, PhD
The biopsychosocial–spiritual impact on non-clinical health professionals who interact with traumatic and/or sensitive health data: A scoping review
Melanie Tassos, Lindsay Carey, Stephanie Gjorgioski, Brad Hodge & Merilyn Riley
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Melanie Tassos, Lindsay Carey, Stephanie Gjorgioski, Brad Hodge & Merilyn Riley
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The biopsychosocial–spiritual impact on non-clinical health professionals who interact with traumatic and/or sensitive health data: A scoping review - Melanie Tassos, Lindsay B Carey, Stephanie Gjorgi...
Background: Existing research has long established that direct exposure to patient trauma, such as severe injuries, chronic illnesses and end-of-life care, plac...
journals.sagepub.com
May 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The biopsychosocial–spiritual impact on non-clinical health professionals who interact with traumatic and/or sensitive health data: A scoping review
Melanie Tassos, Lindsay Carey, Stephanie Gjorgioski, Brad Hodge & Merilyn Riley
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Melanie Tassos, Lindsay Carey, Stephanie Gjorgioski, Brad Hodge & Merilyn Riley
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Amy M. V. Bowers, PhD
#Stillbirth is a public health crisis & a deeply personal tragedy.
@mvkinney.bsky.social shares one such tragedy & why she has worked for 15+yrs with parents, advocates & changemakers to #BreakTheSilence and end preventable #stillbirths.
#IamISA #EndStillbirths ##HealthyBeginnings #HopefulFutures
@mvkinney.bsky.social shares one such tragedy & why she has worked for 15+yrs with parents, advocates & changemakers to #BreakTheSilence and end preventable #stillbirths.
#IamISA #EndStillbirths ##HealthyBeginnings #HopefulFutures
May 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
#Stillbirth is a public health crisis & a deeply personal tragedy.
@mvkinney.bsky.social shares one such tragedy & why she has worked for 15+yrs with parents, advocates & changemakers to #BreakTheSilence and end preventable #stillbirths.
#IamISA #EndStillbirths ##HealthyBeginnings #HopefulFutures
@mvkinney.bsky.social shares one such tragedy & why she has worked for 15+yrs with parents, advocates & changemakers to #BreakTheSilence and end preventable #stillbirths.
#IamISA #EndStillbirths ##HealthyBeginnings #HopefulFutures
"Not only do I grieve for my baby and the person they could have been, but for the person I was before I was forced to live without them. This feeling is one I’ll take to my deathbed, and it’s my life’s work to make peace with it."
“After being told my baby wouldn’t live, I chose to have a medical termination. Here’s what I wish more women knew”
www.stylist.co.uk/fitness-heal...
#TFMR
www.stylist.co.uk/fitness-heal...
#TFMR
“My baby couldn't survive, so I chose to have a medical termination – here’s what I wish I’d known”
Five thousand babies are medically terminated every year in the UK.
www.stylist.co.uk
April 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"Not only do I grieve for my baby and the person they could have been, but for the person I was before I was forced to live without them. This feeling is one I’ll take to my deathbed, and it’s my life’s work to make peace with it."
Reposted by Amy M. V. Bowers, PhD
Buried in this news are 10,500 cases of congenital #rubella syndrome. The classic triad is cataracts, cardiac malformations and deafness. Other problems with rubella during pregnancy include stillbirth and miscarriage.
#MedSky + #IDSky + #ObGynSky.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/prec...
#MedSky + #IDSky + #ObGynSky.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/prec...
'On the precipice of disaster': Measles may be endemic in 25 years if vaccine uptake stays low, model predicts
www.cidrap.umn.edu
April 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Buried in this news are 10,500 cases of congenital #rubella syndrome. The classic triad is cataracts, cardiac malformations and deafness. Other problems with rubella during pregnancy include stillbirth and miscarriage.
#MedSky + #IDSky + #ObGynSky.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/prec...
#MedSky + #IDSky + #ObGynSky.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/prec...
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My newest on @slate.com all about an Iowa Catholic Hospital's belittling of unborn life (stillbirth at 36 weeks) in an attempt to reduce its medmal damages.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
You’ll Never Guess When Pro-Life Hospitals Consider “Unborn Life” Not Actually Alive
Apparently not all unborn life is sacred.
slate.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My newest on @slate.com all about an Iowa Catholic Hospital's belittling of unborn life (stillbirth at 36 weeks) in an attempt to reduce its medmal damages.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Having a mental health condition means you're at increased risk of having a physical health problem undiagnosed or diagnosed late, and you're at greater risk of a diagnostic error, @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk systematic review shows. www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
Diagnostic inequalities relating to physical healthcare among people with mental health conditions: a systematic review
Further investigations should consider the stage of the diagnostic process at which
inequalities occur, to improve knowledge of the mechanisms underpinning diagnostic
inequalities, and support the dev...
www.thelancet.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Having a mental health condition means you're at increased risk of having a physical health problem undiagnosed or diagnosed late, and you're at greater risk of a diagnostic error, @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk systematic review shows. www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
Reposted by Amy M. V. Bowers, PhD
Reposted by Amy M. V. Bowers, PhD
NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies.
By @alecmac.bsky.social
By @alecmac.bsky.social
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...
www.propublica.org
April 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies.
By @alecmac.bsky.social
By @alecmac.bsky.social
Reposted by Amy M. V. Bowers, PhD
📢 We have joined the @who.int campaign #HealthyBeginnings, #HopefulFutures with our own year-long global effort.
🎥 Today, meet @zanleisher.bsky.social & @hblencowe.bsky.social, our Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group co-chairs, as they share our campaign’s vision.
#EndStillbirths #IamISA
🎥 Today, meet @zanleisher.bsky.social & @hblencowe.bsky.social, our Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group co-chairs, as they share our campaign’s vision.
#EndStillbirths #IamISA
April 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
📢 We have joined the @who.int campaign #HealthyBeginnings, #HopefulFutures with our own year-long global effort.
🎥 Today, meet @zanleisher.bsky.social & @hblencowe.bsky.social, our Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group co-chairs, as they share our campaign’s vision.
#EndStillbirths #IamISA
🎥 Today, meet @zanleisher.bsky.social & @hblencowe.bsky.social, our Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group co-chairs, as they share our campaign’s vision.
#EndStillbirths #IamISA
Reposted by Amy M. V. Bowers, PhD
The @propublica.org documentary “Before a Breath” braids together the stories of 3 mothers determined to make pregnancy safer after losing children to stillbirth. Join us for a free screening at President Lincoln's Cottage May 8: www.eventbrite.com/e/film-scree...
Film Screening: Before a Breath
Screen ProPublica's "Before a Breath" in the Emancipation Room.
www.eventbrite.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The @propublica.org documentary “Before a Breath” braids together the stories of 3 mothers determined to make pregnancy safer after losing children to stillbirth. Join us for a free screening at President Lincoln's Cottage May 8: www.eventbrite.com/e/film-scree...
Reposted by Amy M. V. Bowers, PhD
Got the pleadings. It's actually worse. Catholic hospital also argues that a baby stillborn at 34 weeks is not a "death" and refers to baby as a "non-existent person."
Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn’t the same as a ‘person’ iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/09/a...
Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn’t the same as a ‘person’ iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/09/a...
Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn't the same as a 'person' • Iowa Capital Dispatch
A faith-based health care provider is arguing in court that the loss of an unborn child does not equate to the death of a “person.”
iowacapitaldispatch.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Got the pleadings. It's actually worse. Catholic hospital also argues that a baby stillborn at 34 weeks is not a "death" and refers to baby as a "non-existent person."
Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn’t the same as a ‘person’ iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/09/a...
Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn’t the same as a ‘person’ iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/09/a...