Many grieving parents find comfort when people they love honor their baby’s life. These unique gifts can help you show your enduring love and support.
Gifts and Keepsake Ideas for Grieving Parents
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How to Approach Gift Giving and Keepsakes for Grieving Parents
Selecting and delivering the right gift for grieving parents can be challenging. Here are several honest and practical tips from a mom who has experienced loss.
Embrace: Give Grieving Parents the Gift of Your Enthusiasm at the Holidays with S.A.V.E.
Listen to this article. Grieving a baby loss can make holidays challenging for carrying-TO-term families. S.A.V.E. — 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 […]
Validation: Affirm the Feelings Grieving Parents May Have During the Holidays with S.A.V.E.
Listen to this article. 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 the heightened sense of […]
Acknowledgment: Show Grieving Parents You See Them at the Holidays with S.A.V.E
Listen to this article. Grieving a baby loss can make holidays challenging for carrying-to-term families. S.A.V.E. — 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 […]
Support: Offer Concrete Help to Grieving Parents at the Holidays with S.A.V.E.
Listen to this article. Grieving a baby loss can make holidays challenging for carrying-to-term families. S.A.V.E. — 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 […]
S.A.V.E: A Simple Model for Supporting Grieving Parents Through the Holidays
Listen to this article. 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 […]
Grieving a Baby Loss: 5 Key Ways to Support Parents Who Are Remembering a Lost Baby
Listen to this article. 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 […]
Grieving a Baby Loss: Understanding the Complex Nature of Infant Loss Experiences
Listen to this article. 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 […]
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.
The Importance of a Birth Plan (VIDEO)
Perinatal social worker Kenna Hamm, LMSW, shares how a palliative care birth plan can help ensure that your wishes for your baby are honored.
Being Supported and Informed In Your Choice (VIDEO)
Dr. Shannon Abikhaled explains her role as a doctor: to support the decision of the parents.