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posts related to: bereavement
Clodagh’s poem : losing her son
Clodagh lost a baby son and wrote this poem as a result. Her Health Visitor has reproduced it for many parents who have found it immensely helpful. She hopes it will help many more parents and shares it with you here. Little Angel I was given an angel to cherish and love, So tiny, so perfect, a gift…
Experiences of death within the family
Babyworld mums have scored above average on the bravery scales. Here they say why honesty is so important, and explain the difficult decisions they have had to make. He knew she was ill, and we had talked a little… about how people, animals, all things age and die. He was okay with it. I think adults complicate things…
Amazing Grace
From the end of the second trimester, little Gracie was not given much chance of survival but for a year she continued to fight to prove the medical team wrong. Here her mother Stace Hollingsworth tells the moving and inspiring story of her daughter who bravely fought against the odds and touched everyone’s life in…
Premature Birth Certificates
If your baby is born showing signs of life your baby legally has to be registered regardless of gestation. Birth and Death Certificates The hospital is obliged to give you a form with your babies details on which you then take to the register office so that you can register the birth and death. Unfortunately if your baby…
Posted in Losing a baby, Premature babies
Tagged bereavement, Birth, Death, losing a baby, Miscarriage, premature, premature birth, Stillbirth
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Explaining death to your child
The only thing more taboo than sex in British culture is death. We ask why do we have a thing about death? And, for the sake of our children, should we be more open about it? What’s death got to do with it? Two things in the media got me thinking at the weekend. The first was an…
Posted in Losing a baby, Special Needs
Tagged bereavement, child, Death, losing a baby
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Losing a child: A little life, not a little loss
Any parent who has experienced the numbing grief of losing a child will be familiar with the feelings of guilt that creep up on you while you are trying to cope as well as other emotions and thoughts that seem to engulf you and yet seem too irrational to mention. As a mother who lost…
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Tagged baby loss, bereavement, Case study, Death, losing a baby
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Pregnancy after miscarriage : Tracy’s story
Finding out you are pregnant is a nerve-wracking time for any mum-to-be. For women who have already suffered the trauma of miscarrying, those following nine months are the longest of their lives… Pregnant women who have lost a child take each day as it comes. They are excited but frightened, anxiously awaiting the birth while apprehensively considering the risks. It’s…
Posted in Losing a baby, Miscarriage
Tagged bereavement, Death, losing a baby, Miscarriage
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Helping Your Child Deal With Bereavement
New guidelines have been drawn up setting out how a doctor can help children cope with the death of someone who is close to them. The policy, drawn up by the American Academy of Pediatrics, sets out how children of each age group see bereavement. For children up to the age of two: Death is…
Higher miscarriage risk confirmed for older mums
Researchers have studied 630,000 women over a 14-year period to work out the risk of losing a baby during pregnancy as women become older. Over the 14 years, the women each had an average of two pregnancies, and on average, 13.5% ended in losing the baby. But among the women aged 42 years old, more…
Posted in Miscarriage, News
Tagged bereavement, Death, Ectopic pregnancy, losing a baby, Miscarriage, Stillbirth
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Official news on baby deaths scandal
Families who lost babies in the Bristol heart operation scandal yesterday welcomed the publication of the official report, but demanded the situation should never happen again. The inquiry was established in 1998 and examined over 2,000 cases from 1984 to 1995. The lengthy report revealed that between the years 1991 and 1995, up to 35…
