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Tell Us Once service helps new parents
A new Tell Us Once service which will help to make life easier for new parents is being rolled out across the country. The new service will help to cut red tape and paperwork when a new baby is born by making it easier for people to notify government authorities about changes in their circumstances.…
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…
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…
When parents are gone : choosing guardians
No one wants to think about the possibility of not being around for their kids as they grow up. Yet it’s vital that we ensure they are well cared for financially and emotionally if the unspeakable happens. Babyworld looks at the emotional and practical issues surrounding choosing guardians and speaks to family law expert, Jane Mitchell, about the legal…
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…
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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…
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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…
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Tagged bereavement, Death, losing a baby, Miscarriage
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Heart Attack, then twins, then bypass!
28 November, 2000 A 35-YEAR-OLD woman underwent open-heart surgery moments after giving birth to premature twins in a US hospital. Eliz Greene had been at St. Joseph’s Hospital, in Milwaukee, since October. She was confined to bed after doctors stopped her premature labour. At the weekend, she had a heart attack, gave birth to twin…
