Reflection, advice, and honoring her baby.
Jessica’s Story, Part 8: Reflections On My Twin Pregnancy and 3 Takeaways For Carrying To Term Families
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Jessica’s Story, Part 7: Look For Ways of Remembering a Lost Baby and Validating Your Experience
Delivery Day: Important Interactions between doctor and patient
Jessica’s Story, Part 6: When One Twin is Critically Ill, Moms May Experience Unique Pregnancy Trauma
Unique experience of carrying twins, one with life-limiting condition.
Jessica’s Story, Part 5: Informed Consent and Feeling at Peace Requires Holistic Perspective
The pain of an ill-informed choice.
Jessica’s Story, Part 4: Ask for More Time and Support
Learning a diagnosis and searching for connection.
Jessica’s Story, Part 3: Ask for More Time and Support
Having agency and the importance of the patient/doctor relationship
Jessica’s Story, Part 2: Consider the Support You May Need on Your Unique Pregnancy Journey
Doctor appointments offer pregnancy information — but sometimes the news can be devastating.
Jessica’s Story, Part 1: Early Pregnancy Termination In a Twin Pregnancy — and What I Wish I Had Known
The importance of communication between doctor and patient.
Think It Through: 4 Special Considerations Medical Providers Can Extend to Carrying To Term Families
The pregnancy journey is unique for those facing prenatal diagnosis of a life-limiting condition. To care well for these families, it can help to think through each step from their perspective.
Carrying To Term Families Need Consistent Care: Inform, Collaborate, and Create Continuity
More than any other of your patients, families facing a prenatal diagnosis of a life-limiting condition need consistency during their prenatal care.
Communicating With Carrying to Term Families: 3 Areas of Care Provider Focus
To care well for families facing a prenatal diagnosis of a life-limiting condition, carefully consider your communications impact, approach and tone.
Understanding Neonatal Donation for Research
If you’re seeking a way to transform loss into a lasting tribute to life, neonatal donation for research may be an option.