For many bereaved mom and dad, the care supplied by means of future health execs at start – from midwives to antenatal academics – has a very important impact on their reaction to a loss or loss of life. This interactive workbook is obviously utilized to perform and has been designed to aid practitioners convey potent bereavement care.

Providing care to grieving mom and dad should be hard, tough and demanding, with many feeling unwell built to supply acceptable aid. Equipping the reader with basic abilities to aid childbearing ladies, companions and households who've skilled childbirth-related bereavement, this booklet outlines:

• What bereavement is and the ways that it may be skilled with regards to being pregnant and delivery









• Sensitive and supportive methods of supplying undesirable information to childbearing ladies, companions and households









• Models of grieving









• How to spot while a bereaved guardian may well require extra help from psychological wellbeing and fitness experts









• Ongoing help on hand for bereaved girls, their companions and households









• The influence on practitioners and the help they could require









• How to evaluate and tailor care to deal with quite a number religious and spiritual ideals approximately loss of life.

Written by means of hugely informed, skilled midwifery teachers, this sensible and evidence-based workbook is a worthwhile source for all midwives, neonatal nurses and help staff who paintings with girls within the perinatal period.

This publication is appropriate as a textual content for BSc and MSc classes in Midwifery; BScs classes in Paediatric Nursing; and for neonatal and bereavement counselling courses.