Skip to content
GISS Center
Menu
  • Home
  • About GISS Center
  • Campaigns
    • Celebrate 366
    • Fatherhood Safe Sleep Initiative
    • CHANGING A TRADITION, CHANGING A POSITION
  • To Donate

Category: GISS Center

GISS Center > News > GISS Center
Baby First Network / GISS Center

Pregnancy Brain and Grief Brain: What They Are and How to Cope with Both

You found your keys in the bathroom. You forgot about your prenatal appointment. You couldn’t recall your co-worker’s last name. On their own, these mental mishaps might seem like small …

Baby First Network / GISS Center

Why Inclined Baby Sleepers Are So Dangerous

After its introduction in 2009, the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play infant sleeper quickly became a cult favorite among sleep-deprived parents. News spread about the sleeper’s ability to get babies to …

Baby First Network / GISS Center

How a SIDS Study Became a Media Train Wreck

Sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, “will be a thing of the past,” according to Carmel Harrington, a sleep researcher at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, in Australia. A press release describes …

Baby First Network / GISS Center

Divorce Rates – And Can Marriage Really Survive The Loss Of A Child?

One of the scariest statistics I read after our daughter was stillborn was that up to 80 percent of marriages end in divorce after the loss of a child. I remember …

Baby First Network / GISS Center

Interactive Safe Sleep Environment Tool

Learn how to create a safe sleep environment for baby in your home by exploring our interactive room. A safe sleep environment can help reduce the risk of Sudden Infant …

Baby First Network / GISS Center

Stillbirth: This Is What It’s Really Like

I remember talking to an acquaintance, a friend of my husband’s, after our second 2nd trimester loss. I mentioned something about preferring this hospital over the one where we delivered …

Baby First Network / GISS Center

First Black Woman Owned Birth Center in WA

My name is Faisa Farole. I am a certified professional midwife who is licensed to practice in the state of Washington. I am one of few black community midwives. I …

Baby First Network / GISS Center

Bereaved Dads Are Brave Dads

As we approach Father’s Day, I want to point out something I’ve realized that I think might go unnoticed by most of society: Bereaved dads are brave dads. The bravest dads. We …

Baby First Network / GISS Center

Men In Grief: A Paradox For Today’s Male

The loss of a loved one in our life can be crippling and leave deep scars; it changes who we are, how we look at life and how we relate …

GISS Center

New safe sleep guidelines for babies stress no co-sleeping, crib decorations or inclined products

Co-sleeping under any circumstances is not safe for infant sleep, the American Academy of Pediatrics stressed Tuesday in the first update to its safe sleep guidelines for babies since 2016. “We know that …

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Recent Posts

  • Fact Sheet for Nonpartisan Voter Registration at Health Care Institutions
  • Social Determinants of Grief: The Impact of Black Infant Loss Webinar
  • Black Maternal Health Week (April 11-17)
  • OCPIM announces Community Partnership Fire Starter Birth Equity Funding Initiative with grants for community advocates
  • About Second Chances

Donate

Recent Comments

    Archives

    • August 2023
    • May 2023
    • April 2023
    • February 2023
    • October 2022
    • September 2022
    • August 2022
    • July 2022
    • June 2022
    • May 2022
    • April 2022
    • March 2022
    • February 2022
    • January 2022
    • December 2021
    • November 2021
    • October 2021
    • September 2021
    • August 2021
    • July 2021
    • June 2021
    • May 2021
    • April 2021
    • January 2021
    • November 2020
    • October 2020
    • September 2020
    • August 2020
    • July 2020
    • January 2020
    • October 2019
    • January 2019
    • July 2018
    • June 2018
    • May 2018
    • April 2018
    • March 2018
    • February 2018
    • October 2017
    • June 2017
    • May 2017
    • March 2017

    Categories

    • Baby First Network
    • Black Maternal Health Week
    • C.A.R.E. Community
    • CJ First Candle
    • Columbus
    • Community of Committed Men
    • Delta Children
    • Detroit
    • Fatherhood Matters
    • Funding
    • Fundraising
    • Getting to 1
    • GISS Center
    • Grandparents
    • Kappa Alpha Psi
    • Main Article
    • Media
    • Memphis
    • Message from Stacy
    • Minority Health Awareness Month
    • NAPPA PARTNERSHIP
    • National Mental Health Awareness Month
    • New York
    • NICHQ
    • ODH
    • Ohio
    • PRESS RELEASE
    • SIDS Awareness Month
    • Silhouettes
    • Toledo
    • Tulsa
    • Uncategorized
    • Voter Registration
    • Webinar
    • Wichita

    Meta

    • Log in
    • Entries feed
    • Comments feed
    • WordPress.org
    Stay Updated
    Copyright © 2025 GISS Center