Latest Grief Articles
Spending Time With Your Baby After a Miscarriage
Seeing and spending time with your baby can be a positive way to express your feelings and can help you to understand the reality of the miscarriage. However, this may only be possible if you experien...
Women’s Health Following Miscarriage
Everyone is different when it comes to physical recovery after an early pregnancy loss. It may take several weeks for you to return to full strength, and it is recommended that you see your general pr...
Feelings and Reactions After a Miscarriage
Many parents describe a range of responses including disbelief, anger, sadness, guilt, heartache and overwhelming confusion. Life may suddenly seem to be “out of control”. Physical reactions such ...
Creating Memories After an Early Pregnancy Loss
Following and early pregnancy loss, some parents are left wondering if their pregnancy was ever real. There are many ways to create mementos that relate to baby’s existence. Parents often describe t...
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...
Take Care of Yourself
Giving support to your friend or family member means sharing their pain. Listening and caring can be exhausting. So make sure you have support for yourself.