Using letters from and interviews with many bereaved parents, Nancy Kohner and Alix Henley have written a book which offers understanding of what it means to lose a baby and the grief that follows. When a Baby Dies also contains valuable information about why a baby dies, hospital practices, the process of grieving, sources of support, and the care parents need in future pregnancies.

This work provides insight into the subjective experience of stillbirth, miscarriage and pregnancy, and the professional response. It has grown out of interviews with women and with the range of health professionals who were significant in their care. These experiences are drawn upon to explore the dilemmas in offering good care, and to suggest ways in which practice might be improved.

This book is designed to guide and inform the practice of individual professionals and the policies, procedures and standards of NHS Trusts in relation to the care of parents following the loss of their baby. It sets standards for care and explains the rationale that supports those standards.

This well-known reference for all healthcare professionals in contact with parents who lose a baby has been completely updated to reflect the latest research in the field, and incorporates new policy from the Department of Health. It covers every aspect of care and the legal, ethical and practical issues surrounding the loss. Checklists, suggested further reading and a useful list of support organisations complete this essential guide to good practice.

Intended for nurses, doctors, midwives, social workers, chaplains, and hospital support staff, this guide gives caring and practical advice for helping families grieve properly after losing a child at birth. As the special needs of families experiencing perinatal loss are intense and require more than just the bereavement standards in most hospitals, this handbook offers tips and suggestions for opening up communication between caregivers and families, creating a compassionate bedside environment, and helping with mourning rituals. Encouraging continual grief support, these specific companioning strategies can help ease the pain of this most sensitive situation.

The death of a baby - either near the time of birth or earlier in the pregnancy - and the impact upon the family members requires special insights and care. In the past this unique loss has often gone unacknowledged with parents being encouraged to forget their baby and `try again'. This book addresses the importance of marking the experience of pregnancy, however short it may have been. Bruce Pierce explores the nature of grief and the significance of ritual as part of the grieving process, and offers liturgical resources from the Christian traditions, from other faith traditions and from various support groups. Baptism, Limbo and Original Sin are also considered, and the author acknowledges the struggle between theological correctness and pastoral necessity. As care for the bereaved is now provided by a multidisciplinary team, the important roles played by each profession in a comprehensive response is examined. A comprehensive, valuable and informative resource for healthcare providers, those in pastoral ministry and bereaved families.

This book is primarily aimed at midwives, neonatal nurses and health visitors. It should also be relevant to gynaecology nurses who frequently deal with miscarriages and abortions. A comprehensive, research-based yet practical "direct" book which covers all types of bereavement concerning families - ie infertility; T.O.P; miscarriage; premature and full-term stillbirths; pre-term and neonatal death; SIDS ("cot death"); adoption; and death in small children. As a counselling book, it draws on the provocation and development of the reader's own experience of loss to nurture empathy, and offers practical, sensitive guidelines for professional conduct.

Ingela Radestad's first child, Ellen, died shortly before birth. As a midwife and now the mother of three children, Ingela recognised that there was a need for a sensitive but realistic book to help parents and those around them cope with the death of a very small child. 

The book explores the reactions which follow such a loss and the different ways in which parents experience and express their grief. The final section of the book drawn upon the experiences of a number of midwives who have cared for stillbirth or neonatal death cases and this makes the book essential reading for maternity care professionals.

Too often the loss of a child in miscarriage, stillbirth, or early neonatal death is borne in silence. The usual social and emotional support structures for death and bereavement seldom extend to miscarriage, leaving parents to grieve a silent loss.... Your church can be a carepoint for those grieving the silent loss of miscarriage, stillbirth, and early neonatal death by hosting a Christ-centered 10-session support group based on Sylvia McDonald's grace-full book Breaking the Silence and ministering Christ's love to them now!