Theme: Pregnancy After Child Loss
Theme: Pregnancy After Child Loss
The parents of two sons, the first of whom was diagnosed with an extremely rare genetic condition, discuss what it was like when their second son was born. They talk about the tension between their grief and their joy and the ways that their youngest son has helped them through their bereavement.
Theme: Pregnancy After Child Loss
The parents of four children, one of whom was diagnosed with Microcephaly Capillary Malformation Syndrome, discuss their experience with their second child who had to spend several months in the NICU after birth. They talk about the flashbacks that the hospital monitors gave them and the advantages and drawbacks of having so much medical knowledge after their experience with their first child.
Theme: Pregnancy After Child Loss
The parents of four children, one of whom passed away just shy of his third birthday from Microcephaly Capillary Malformation Syndrome, talk about having kids after their eldest son passed. They talk about the pressures and blessings of adopting a child and finding out shortly after that they were pregnant with twins.
Theme: Pregnancy After Child Loss
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.
Theme: Pregnancy After Child Loss
Theme: Pregnancy After Child Loss
Theme: Pregnancy After Child Loss
Theme: Pregnancy After Child Loss
Theme: Pregnancy After Child Loss
Theme: Pregnancy After Child Loss
Three bereaved moms share their beliefs about the connection between their children who have passed and their children who follow. They talk about the beauty of the signs they have been given, the intersection between life and death, and seeing beyond what happens on earth.
Theme: Pregnancy After Child Loss
The mother of two daughters, Emerson and Margo, talks about the strange realization that as soon as she became pregnant again, she could safely talk about Emerson, who passed away at 16 months from Type II Gaucher’s Disease, with other people because there was a happy ending. She discusses how this made her feel protective of both her daughters because she wanted them to be seen as individuals and of equal importance in her story.