We provide sensitive care facilitated by a labor and delivery nurse trained in bereavement with personal experience
in perinatal loss during the pregnancy, delivery, and follow up bereavement support for the years to come.
Learn how to ask better questions and offer compassionate care
during perinatal loss and in subsequent pregnancies.
Hygeia Foundation, Inc.and Institute
for Perinatal Loss and Bereavement Articles, resource and referral information, personal stories, and user database.
Suzanne has developed and co-run one of the best hospital
perinatal loss programs in the US for families when they have a baby die.
Nursing instructor, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN Perinatal Nurse Navigator, Maple Grove Hospital Former
Hospital Perinatal Loss Coordinator Birth Planner Baby Loss Doula Trainer, Advisory Member
Rebecca Weinberg, PsyD is a clinical psychologist with a special interest in women's behavioral health,
including perinatal loss and infertility.
I also have extensive experience doing both support groups and psychotherapy, and started the first (and longest running)
perinatal loss support group in the Washington DC area almost 35 years ago, MIS (Miscarriage, Infant Death and Stillbirth).
Loss Doulas International is a certifying body for companion / advocates called Baby Loss Doula ™ or
Perinatal Loss Doula ™
In June 2013, Dr. Rich was among the first cohort receiving the designation
Certified Perinatal Loss Caregiver by the National Board of Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing.
Help in finding support, understanding, compassionate care, guidance, resources, networking links, speakers,
perinatal loss consultants, excellent standards of bereavement care, literature, and so much more.
The part I have an issue with is that there is so much evidence that there is a three times
higher perinatal loss rate.
For clinicians working with pregnant women, especially those who have suffered
previous perinatal losses, it can be challenging to address some of these issues because women may feel reluctant to bring forward body image concerns.
-- Examination of the special components that
differentiate perinatal loss from other losses, and the ways in which both parents and staff are profoundly altered by such a loss.
Shoshana Center — located in Saint Paul, Dr. Deb Rich specializes in caring for women and families, including through the experience
of perinatal loss.
Teresa provides counseling services for Adults, Teens, and Women during the transition to parenthood, including PostPartum support,
perinatal loss as well as Mood and Anxiety Disorders.
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following perinatal loss: A pilot randomized controlled trial.»
Rebecca Weinberg, PsyD is a clinical psychologist with a special interest in women's behavioral health,
including perinatal loss and infertility.
She provides grief counseling
during perinatal loss to the patients, families, and staff of Sisters of Charity Hospital.
She also works as a volunteer Parent Advocate and support care providers through consulting and ongoing education
on perinatal loss and bereavement.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be given to Northwestern Memorial Foundation,
Perinatal Loss Program.
Since 2006, I have expanded my offerings from natural childbirth classes to a full spectrum of family education and support, including breastfeeding classes and counseling, fertility education, natural family planning classes, doula care,
perinatal loss care, and prenatal care and midwifery services.»
Rachel E.K. Freedman, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in Bethesda, Maryland who specializes
in perinatal loss.
Has worked for over 10 years with women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders as well as grief and trauma related to
perinatal loss and birth experiences.
Whether it is a miscarriage, (sometimes called a spontaneous abortion or products of conception by the medical profession), or a stillbirth (sometimes called fetal demise, fetal death, intrauterine death, or
perinatal loss), or an early infant loss (in the NICU or from SIDS or SUID)... if this was your baby, of course you hurt.
Perinatal loss is an unexpected, traumatic, and life - changing event.
For over 20 years she has provided clinical services to clients facing postpartum adjustment and mood disorders, traumatic childbirth experiences,
perinatal loss, NICU stays and medically fragile children, and fertility challenges.
At that time, she was starting to grasp more about my work as a therapist who helps others through
perinatal losses.
She also writes and speaks on topics pertaining to
perinatal loss, trauma, and women's issues.
Vogel, Gary A CAREGIVER»S HANDBOOK FOR
PERINATAL LOSS A Place to Remember, 1996 The author, a psychotherapist, shares his professional and personal experience in this concise guide to the issues surrounding perinatal loss.
The intensity of
perinatal loss is not governed by the length of the pregnancy or the child's life — each time a fetus or baby does not survive and thrive is a monumental loss of life, a life just as important and cherished as any other.
In addition, the Day Hospital is a site for several past and ongoing National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funded research projects involving perinatal mood disorders,
perinatal loss, and comparative treatment approaches with postpartum women.