We recognize that nurses, midwives, social workers, doctors, doulas and hospital staff play an integral role in providing families a roadmap for navigating their experiences of pregnancy and infant loss. We also recognize that health care professionals deeply feel for and grieve with loss families.
As a health care professional working with PAIL families, you are a invaluable resource and bridge to support for parents. Your responsibility is great; how families feel their care was managed during a loss can impact their journey of healing. It often falls to health care professionals to advocate and inform families on how to create rituals and memory making during their time in hospital.
Resources for Health Care Professionals
Supporting Patients During Pregnancy After Loss
As a health care professional working with PAIL families, you are a invaluable resource and bridge to support for parents. Your responsibility is great; how families feel their care was managed during a loss can impact their journey of healing. It often falls to health care professionals to advocate and inform families on how to create rituals and memory making during their time in hospital.
Resources for Health Care Professionals
- Supporting and communicating with families experiencing a perinatal loss - Canadian Paediatric Society
- Guidelines for health care professionals supporting families experiencing a perinatal loss - NCBI
- #RenamingRevolution Motherhood and Fertility Glossary
- Government of Canada Maternity Guidelines - Perinatal Loss and Grief
- Companioning at a Time of Perinatal Loss: A Guide for Nurses, Physicians, Social Workers, Chaplains and Other Bedside Caregivers
- Early Pregnancy Loss in the Emergency Department: Recommendations for the Provision of Compassionate Care - Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health
- Resources for health care and service professionals - PAIL Network at Sunnybrook
- Healthcare professionals’ experiences of perinatal loss: A systematic review- SAGE Journals
- Nurses’ Experiences of Grieving When There Is a Perinatal Death - SAGE Journals
- Sample Bereavement Checklist
- Holding space for pregnancy loss: 3 components for doulas to consider - Amy Wright Glenn
Supporting Patients During Pregnancy After Loss
