Grieving a baby loss can make holidays challenging for carrying to term families. SAVE — Support, Acknowledge, Validate, and Embrace — is a simple model you can use to help. The holidays are filled with beloved traditions we return to year after year. At the same time, traditions can create expectations that may be difficult […]

Grieving a baby loss can make holidays challenging for carrying to term families. SAVE — Support, Acknowledge, Validate, and Embrace — is a simple model you can use to help. Depending on where in the carrying to term or grief process a parent is, grieving parents may struggle to accept that a heightened sense of […]

Grieving a baby loss can make holidays challenging for carrying to term families. SAVE — Support, Acknowledge, Validate, and Embrace — is a simple model you can use to help. The holidays are a time when many people struggle with emotions. We may think we are supposed to feel a certain way. If our actual […]

Grieving a baby loss can make holidays challenging for carrying to term families. SAVE — Support, Acknowledge, Validate, and Embrace — is a simple model you can use to help. Wondering how you can care for grieving parents as the holiday season approaches? The good news is that it may be simpler than you think. […]

Grieving a baby loss can make holidays challenging for carrying to term families. SAVE — Support, Acknowledge, Validate, and Embrace — is a simple model you can use to help. For parents facing a prenatal diagnosis of a life-limiting condition or remembering a baby that died, the holiday season can be complicated. Parents may feel […]

How can you care for carrying to term families as they grieve the loss of a baby, experience primary and secondary losses, and live while remembering a lost baby or babies?  It can be difficult for family, friends, and other supporters of bereaved parents to know how best to support them in grieving a baby […]

Families facing loss during pregnancy or shortly after delivery often experience a lifetime of loss — and need supporters who understand the complexities of remembering a lost baby. The day a family receives a prenatal diagnosis of a life-limiting condition, they experience a primary loss. In that moment, life as they knew it, and life […]

Doctor appointments offer pregnancy information — but sometimes the news can be devastating.

To care well for families facing a prenatal diagnosis of a life-limiting condition, carefully consider your communications impact, approach and tone.

Perinatal social worker Kenna Hamm, LMSW, shares how a palliative care birth plan can help ensure that your wishes for your baby are honored.

Dr. Shannon Abikhaled explains her role as a doctor: to support the decision of the parents.

Assigning blame is a common and normal response in situations that feel out of your control. Here, we explore strategies for supportive communication during this unimaginable time.