12 | Ana Lepe Vick-PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy

The Silent Footprints

I had the great pleasure of meeting ⁠Ana Lepe Vick⁠ in Washington DC in May of 2023. About 50 of us set up meetings with Congressmen and Women to advocate for the ⁠Shine For Autumn Act⁠ and the ⁠Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act.⁠

After a healthy first born daughter, Ana had a miscarriage, the stillbirth of our son Owen, and a missed miscarriage. It was such a dark period as she was feeling so devastated by our losses and broken as a woman who couldn’t seem to carry to term again. Delivering Owen by crash c-section late one evening after I noticed decreased fetal movement and finding out when she awoke that he didn’t survive was the most traumatic event of our lives, but the miscarriages also felt devastating because her and her husband wanted so badly to give their daughter a sibling to grow up with. Ana will never stop missing the babies that should’ve been here with their two living siblings, a piece of Ana died with them though she carries their memory with her in her advocacy efforts (non-profit ⁠PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy⁠) and every day life. Her children are always loved and forever part of our family. Ana is the Co-Director of Medical Innovation & Advancement at PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy.

Ana is very active on social media and can be found on the following handles

⁠@stillmyson⁠ ⁠@pushpregnancy ⁠⁠www.pushpregnancy.org/rainbow-clinic⁠ (Use code: PALLOVE for free access in Feb. to our PAL training)⁠@shineforstillbirth ⁠⁠www.shineforautumnact.org⁠ ⁠@countthekicksus ⁠⁠@sacredbirthcircle ⁠⁠@creadorasdeluz

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