In this series of personal stories we hear from parents who have suffered pregnancy or baby loss. We hold space for loss and grief.

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

We found out we were pregnant about 5 weeks in. The pregnancy was good - I didn’t really get much morning sickness.

Our story began when my partner Tom and I decided to start trying for a baby. 6 months later, I was staring at a positive pregnancy test.

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

My partner and I had been trying for a baby for 18 months and just hadn’t had any luck. Aug 11th 2016 was the day I found out I was pregnant

Each week Claire Tonti talks to writers, thinkers, activists, experts and deeply feeling humans about their stories.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This post is an article by Kate Obst, a Provisional Psychologist and PhD Candidate at the University of Adelaide.

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

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

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

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

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...

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