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Planning Another Pregnancy After a Miscarriage
Following a miscarriage some parents are keen to become pregnant again as soon as possible. Others feel the need to wait for some time. Sometimes, partners have differing views about a subsequent preg...
How Others Can Help Parents After a Miscarriage
Family and friends are often deeply distressed when someone close to them experiences a miscarriage. They may feel incredibly helpless and powerless and wonder what they can possibly do to make the fa...
A Guide for Family and Friends: Supporting the Grieving Parents
What Grieving Parents Want You to Know Please don’t avoid me. You can’t catch my grief. My world is painful and when you are too afraid to call me or say anything, you isolate me at a time when ...
When Your Co-Worker Returns After the Death of a Baby or Child
The sudden and unexpected death of a baby or child is like no other death – it has been described as the ‘ultimate loss’, a loss of hopes and dreams, a loss of part of oneself as a parent, the l...
Why the Support of Friends and Family Can Make a Difference
Just being there can make a difference “...one of the best things or one of the most helpful things was that the Principal at Sian’s school, came Sunday morning with some flowers and they were b...
Another Baby? The Decision is Yours
The death of a child is perhaps the greatest tragedy that can occur to parents. You will be changed by this devastating loss and you may find that your previous thoughts and plans about having another...
Ways to Help Your Other Children
It is possible to reassure your children that you will be okay, even though you are sad now.
Teenagers Speak
By listening to our bereaved teenagers, we can get a better understanding of how best to support them in their grief. Reflecting their question back to them for their opinion can guide you as a parent...
Changes Over Time
Grief takes a lot of your energy and it is tiring. Many parents find that it can take up to two years for a normal routine to resume after the death of someone significant in your child’s life. Ther...
Your Beliefs
Taking time to listen to your child respects and validates his or her opinions and beliefs and provides a starting point for further conversations about what your child may believe happens after you d...