First and foremost, you are in control of this part of the carrying to term process. How and when you tell your family and friends about the diagnosis and prognosis for your baby is entirely up to you and your significant other.
Prenatal Counseling: Supporting Parents Following a Prenatal Diagnosis
The primary purpose of prenatal counseling is to educate and equip parents to make informed decisions in the months ahead.
Grandparents Day: Acknowledging Grieving Grandparents
Not only are grandparents navigating their own grief, they also help carry the weight of their child’s grief while supporting the needs of the family their child has created.
Perinatal Mental Health and the Carrying To Term Process
Since perinatal loss has negative impacts on parents, both psychologically and socially, it is imperative that medical professionals intervene as early in the carrying to term process as possible.
Honoring A Birth Plan: How Medical Professionals Can Support Their Patients
While there will likely be many decisions that have to be made in the moment during labor, delivery, and postpartum care, a birth plan serves to help you ensure that your parents’ wishes are honored.
Children’s Grief
You may be wondering how to even begin the process of telling your children about the diagnosis affecting their baby brother or sister. Know that there is no perfect set of words when it comes to this experience.
Lactation After Loss: Expression, Donation, and Suppression
When a woman loses a baby, her body still responds in the way it was designed: to produce sustenance for the life she spent months growing and nurturing.
Agency and Voice: How To Advocate Well
Agency is the ability or capacity a person has to act within an environment or a given set of circumstances. Medical professionals, you are a major character in the worst moments a family’s life, and that role comes with tremendous responsibility.
Pregnancy After Loss: A Friend and Relative’s Guide
Like grief, pregnancy after loss is a sensitive time. It is a new and transformative experience, and as the network of support walking with parents through this experience, a level of self-awareness is necessary.
Pregnancy After Loss: A Parent’s Guide
No matter if you are the mother or father, or this is your first or third pregnancy after loss, your experience matters.
Pregnancy After Loss: A Doctor’s Guide
Grief is a complicated emotion because it can leave a family with fear and sorrow, but it can also create perspective that gives families a whole new understanding of the precious and not promised nature of pregnancy and childbirth.
How To Include Dads in Pregnancy and Childbirth
A father’s role is vital to the well-being of the mother, and in order to ensure that fathers can care well for and support their partners, their paternal needs and grief cannot be ignored.