Honoring your loss while anticipating and experiencing the birth and life of another
Becoming pregnant and welcoming another child after losing a child can bring forward a complex and often competing set of emotions. Finding understanding in the medical world also brings forward challenges.
- How do I live in this space? Loving both the child I have lost and finding joy with the new one I just welcomed into my heart.
- How do I talk to friends/family and medical providers to make them understand where I am with my grief and how it affects this new pregnancy?
- How can I help the new baby “know” the sibling he/she never met? What stories do we want to tell? Are there rituals, traditions, celebrations we want to keep or make anew?
Join a group of mothers, each who has lost a child and gone on to have another and Kathie Kobler, an experienced advanced practice nurse whose compassionate care of such families and research has led to advancements in perinatal, neonatal, and pediatric palliative and bereavement care.
