This is My Story - Jenna
This series of personal stories from parents who have suffered pregnancy or baby loss opens up a space for talking about loss and grief...
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- Feb 13
- 5 min
This is My Story - Jane
This series of personal stories from parents who have suffered pregnancy or baby loss opens up a space for talking about loss and grief...
- Jan 24
- 5 min
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...
- May 4, 2022
- 4 min
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...
- Feb 4, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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....
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