Synopsis
For many people the loss of a child through neonatal death or stillbirth is often their first encounter with bereavement. This painful experience tends to be ignored or dismissed by family and friends and bereaved parents often find there is inappropriate advice or counselling. With personal testimony from many who have experienced loss, this book gives positive and constructive help. It covers common medical conditions that may contribute to stillbirth, the difficult problems of dealing with the loss of a child in intensive care and coping with loss of babies for whom postmortems could find no satisfactory explanations. It provides a practical guide to dealing with the problems of birth and death announcements and funeral arrangements, offers recommendations for good practice within the medical profession and includes a section on where to get further help.