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Our reading list for bereaved parents and children
Processing grief can be a significant challenge to those directly experiencing loss and those around them. While no single text can offer a simple answer, we reached out to our followers and families ...
Helpful Hints - How to Support the Grieving Family
Death is a difficult subject, one which is frightening and unfamiliar to many people. Sometimes it is hard to know what to do or say to someone whose young child has died. You may feel awkward, uncomf...
Grandparents’ Grief is Unique
‘My grief, unique to me, but oh how unfortunately common. I used to think about the legacy I was leaving my grandchildren when I died, what would they remember about me? I never thought I would ha...
Common Grief Reactions
“Grief is a tidal wave that overtakes you, smashes down upon you with unimaginable force, sweeps you up into its darkness, where you tumble and crash against unidentifiable surfaces, only to be thro...
Supporting Your Adult Grieving Child - What Can I Do?
“I am powerless, I am helpless. I am frustration. I sit with her and I cry with her I can’t reach inside her and take her broken heart. I must watch her suffer day after day.” 1 (Margare...
Supporting Queer Parents Through Loss: A Compassionate Approach
In the quiet aftermath of loss, the grief of parents who have lost children, babies, or pregnancies envelops every aspect of their existence. For queer parents, this sorrow is compounded by unique cha...
Stacey’s Story - In Loving Memory of Sonny
Termination for medical reasons is also baby loss and it needs to be recognised and supported within the baby loss community and the wider community.
Navigating Mother’s Day
You’re not alone in thinking that the approach of Mother’s Day is a particularly difficult and painful time.
Older Loss
A First Christmas without your baby
A message to all mums and dads this Christmas who are grieving the loss of a child for the first time. I am so sorry you are here.