A midwife's perspective on perinatal loss
Co-Founder and Vice President of Possum Portraits Annika Reinboth, who also goes by Jascha, is a practicing midwife. As a perinatal...
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- Feb 4
- 2 min
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...
- Jan 28
- 3 min
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...
- Jan 18
- 4 min
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.
- Jan 18
- 2 min
Stillbirth Stories
In this post we introduce Stillbirth Stories, a UK-based archive of personal stories on the topic of perinatal bereavement. The archive...
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
For a Reason
The addage "Everything happens for a reason" is a saying which usually imparts comfort. However, for bereaved parents this sentence is...
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
Growing Around Grief
Before we experience a life-changing event occasioned by grief, we probably harboured an expectation about how grief behaves over time....
- Dec 14, 2021
- 1 min
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...
- Aug 24, 2021
- 9 min
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...
- May 5, 2021
- 1 min
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....