May 44 minA midwife's perspective on perinatal lossCo-Founder and Vice President of Possum Portraits Annika Reinboth, who also goes by Jascha, is a practicing midwife. As a perinatal...
Feb 42 minThe Living With Loss ProgramThe Living with Loss (LWL) Program is an online support program for parents following the death of their baby through stillbirth or...
Jan 283 minCommon responses to perinatal bereavementGrief can affect emotional, social, physical, spiritual/religious and mental wellbeing. Grief is not a set of finite stages, instead it...
Jan 184 minThe silent grievers: dads need workplace support too This post is an article by Kate Obst, a Provisional Psychologist and PhD Candidate at the University of Adelaide.
Jan 182 minStillbirth StoriesIn this post we introduce Stillbirth Stories, a UK-based archive of personal stories on the topic of perinatal bereavement. The archive...
Dec 14, 20212 minFor a ReasonThe addage "Everything happens for a reason" is a saying which usually imparts comfort. However, for bereaved parents this sentence is...
Dec 14, 20212 minGrowing Around GriefBefore we experience a life-changing event occasioned by grief, we probably harboured an expectation about how grief behaves over time....
Dec 14, 20211 minWhat is PTG?PTG stands for post-traumatic growth. PTG is a theory that explains a kind of transformation following trauma. It was developed by...
Aug 24, 20219 minThe Baby Loss JournalThe Possum Blog is now featuring the journal entries of UK mum Amy Hanbury, who is using journaling to process her grief. She and her...
May 5, 20211 minRecognition of Early Pregnancy LossA feeling which many parents voice upon suffering pregnancy loss is emptiness. Where there should have been a baby, there is now a void....