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This is Our Story - Hailey & Tammy

This series of personal stories from parents who have suffered pregnancy or baby loss opens up a space for talking about loss and grief...

A midwife's perspective on perinatal loss

Co-Founder and Vice President of Possum Portraits Jascha Reinboth is a practicing midwife. As a perinatal caregiver, Jascha experiences...

The Living With Loss Program

The Living with Loss (LWL) Program is an online support program for parents following the death of their baby through stillbirth or...

Common responses to perinatal bereavement

Grief can affect emotional, social, physical, spiritual/religious and mental wellbeing. Grief is not a set of finite stages, instead it...

The 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.

Stillbirth Stories

In this post we introduce Stillbirth Stories, a UK-based archive of personal stories on the topic of perinatal bereavement. The archive...

For a Reason

The addage "Everything happens for a reason" is a saying which usually imparts comfort. However, for bereaved parents this sentence is...

Growing Around Grief

Before we experience a life-changing event occasioned by grief, we probably harboured an expectation about how grief behaves over time....

What is PTG?

PTG stands for post-traumatic growth. PTG is a theory that explains a kind of transformation following trauma. It was developed by...

The Baby Loss Journal

The Possum Blog is now featuring the journal entries of UK mum Amy Hanbury, who is using journaling to process her grief. She and her...

Recognition of Early Pregnancy Loss

A feeling which many parents voice upon suffering pregnancy loss is emptiness. Where there should have been a baby, there is now a void....