Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Wednesdays for Wyatt

Today is the very first post for Wednesdays for Wyatt!

It’s quite simple to participate. All you have to do is go to Danielle's blog and copy and paste her post to your blog, and then link up with MckLinky! Once you do that, you are entered in the Wednesday’s for Wyatt giveaway. Let make this a huge success, shall we?

For those of you who are not familiar with my family and what we are trying to achieve, here’s a brief run down...

Our son Wyatt was diagnosed with a fatal condition at our 18 week ultrasound, but chose to carry him to term. We waited to meet our son with love, all the time praying we would get to see him alive.

On June 1, 2009, Wyatt made his way into the world by c-section. To our amazement he had a faint heartbeat and was breathing! He died two minutes later, but I’ve clung to the two minutes my son and I breathed the same air since his passing.

Upon calling to get a copy of Wyatt’s birth certificate, I found out he was listed as a stillborn. You would assume it was a mistake (like I did), but there was no mistake. According to the definition of live birth in Tennessee my son was not “alive enough” to be deemed a live born baby. His two minutes of life has gone unrecognized by my state, and I intend to change this piece of legislation so I can solidify the validity of my son’s short life.

Wednesdays for Wyatt was created to help spread awareness for a law that needs to be changed, as well as to generate more traffic to my petition. So if you’re reading this, thanks for taking the time to help our family!

We are currently up to 1,253 signatures. Hurray! We’ve made it over my initial goal of 1,000 signatures, and now I’m dreaming big! You think you can help me get 5,000 signatures by Thanksgiving? I bet you could, and I hope this Wednesdays for Wyatt helps out tremendously. Post this to your blogs, facebook, myspace... wherever you can think of. I can’t wait to see how many more signatures we receive from this. I have a great feeling!

The contest will only be open today. You have until 11:59 pm to post this on your blog and come back here to link up with MckLinky in order to qualify for this Wednesdays for Wyatt giveaway. Good luck everybody and thanks for participating.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

I have signed this petion, and added a link on my facebook and my myspace so that all my friends can sign too.

It's not right that do not count every breath as a babys life in TN, every breath counts!

Ali

Unknown said...

I also added a blog about it.

Tina said...

Okay am I missing it? I don't see the link to her blog.

Holly said...

Ok, Christina, you caught me. lol I added it!!

Debby@Just Breathe said...

I know that Danielle appreciates each post and signature. I had several sign from a post I had a few weeks ago. Thank you for being part of the Wednesdays for Wyatt.
You know exactly what these women feel and need. God Bless.

Danielle said...

Holly :)

Thanks for being a part of Wednesdays for Wyatt yesterday! We got over 100 signatures! WOOHOO!

I hope it will just keep getting larger :)

I'm so nervous/excited about meeting up on Saturday! Can't wait to meet you and make you an IRL friend!

Hugs!

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