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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…
Support Groups : C
Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood (CLIC) Abbey Wood Bristol BS34 7JU Tel: 0117 311 2600 Fax: 0117 311 2649 Email: clic@clic-charity.demon.co.uk www.clic.uk.com Support groups founded in 1976 by Robert N. Woodward, CLIC decided to concentrate on three specific elements to help sick children and their families: medical resources, practical help and research. This remains the same…
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…
Blighted ovum : Claudia ‘s story
“When it happens to you, you feel as if you are the only person in the world going through so much pain and suffering, but if you are actually brave enough to talk about it you find so many other people out there, also bottling up pain and suffering… My mum had a miscarriage before she had me,…
‘I’ve had three miscarriages’ : Nicole
“I had my first miscarriage in August 1996, after 12 weeks. It didn’t leave me too upset, my friend had one a few months before so I knew that it happened. But I had my second one in January 1997 at 16 weeks, after having a few scans which showed that everything was OK. One day I started…
Miscarriage awareness week : Shona
Shona “I discovered I was pregnant for the first time in January 1989. At first it was a terrific shock as I was only a few months into a new relationship and the pregnancy was unplanned. Once it had sunk in, however, we realised we were both delighted and keen to go ahead. I remember being surprised by…
A missed miscarriage – Rachel
“I had a missed miscarriage. This means that the baby died but remained in the womb. It wasn’t something that I was particularly aware of before it happened to me. “We started trying for a baby last autumn and I got pregnant in November. We were thrilled. When I went for my dating scan in…
My baby died at 13 weeks : Veronica
“I have four children and originally lost my fourth. The pregnancy seemed normal apart from the fact I felt so ill and sick most of the time. I went for my routine scan at 17 weeks to see this little image on the screen and to be told that my baby looked small and had died…
Miscarriage awareness week : Katharine
Katherine’s story: ‘I was devastated when I miscarried’ Katharine “I had a miscarriage in 1998 at seven weeks pregnant. I hadn’t planned to have children and actually thought I would never be able to have children due to previous surgery. It was only when I became pregnant that I realised I wanted children. I was devastated when I…
