Go back home. Surviving the pain. Come back to life.
October is Baby Loss Awareness Month, dedicated to raising awareness about perinatal and infant loss: the goal of this observance is to raise awareness and make visible to everyone the …
What happens to words when a child dies? Can writing help give shape to grief and share it, or can it become a way to distance oneself from it? Starting …
By Dr. Ambra Beretta, clinical psychologist, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, and representative of the CiaoLapo Association for the Marche region The experience of fathers coping with perinatal bereavement in our country is …
I interviewed Federica Attanasi, author of “The Shape of Emptiness,” a poetic collection of words and images about perinatal grief. Writing has been my way of breathing inside the void. …
The loss of a child is a deeply traumatic event that not only affects the personal sphere but is intertwined with the working and social lives of those affected. Although …
New 2026 meetings for parent members We will walk together again this year, to go through the mourning Going through grief online meetings, Friday afternoons, 6-8 p.m. Feb. 20: The …
“Mom” and “dad”: how beautiful these words, full of love and meaning, among the first words we say as children.
Mary Shelley is an ongoing CiaoLapo project that uses books and reading as tools to reflect on perinatal grief, grieving, the pitfalls of the grieving process, but also the resources, …
In 2019, during the long process for the Ashoka fellowship, at the end of a very long morning of interviews, I met the founder of Treedom who told us about …
After a perinatal bereavement, a new pregnancy is never just a “new pregnancy,” but a complex time, inhabited by conflicting emotions: desire and fear, hope and alertness, presence and absence, …
