Co-Founder and Vice President of Possum Portraits Annika Reinboth, who also goes by Jascha, is a practicing midwife. As a perinatal...

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....