Anyone who experiences a pregnancy loss - whether a miscarriage, abortion, termination for medical reasons, ectopic or molar pregnancy or stillbirth - may find themselves in a grey area of grief.
How do you grieve for a baby you never met, or who only lived a short time? Many women and their partners find their experience of loss traumatic and can be unprepared for the grief that follows.
In our society, talking about pregnancy loss or baby loss is still taboo - it's a very difficult thing to discuss, partly because so many people don’t know how to react. I am particularly interested in this concept of disenfranchised grief – how to grieve losses that are not recognised by society – as it applies to pregnancy loss and other non-death losses.
How do you grieve for a baby you never met, or who only lived a short time? Many women and their partners find their experience of loss traumatic and can be unprepared for the grief that follows.
In our society, talking about pregnancy loss or baby loss is still taboo - it's a very difficult thing to discuss, partly because so many people don’t know how to react. I am particularly interested in this concept of disenfranchised grief – how to grieve losses that are not recognised by society – as it applies to pregnancy loss and other non-death losses.
I have specialist training in perinatal loss and grief and currently also work as a counsellor and trainer at TimeNorfolk, a pregnancy loss charity.
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