When words are hard to find, you can always start by listening.
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. …
Grieving, at first, takes away our words, takes them away, hides them, breaks them, empties them of meaning. For weeks, months, years, bereaved parents know that one of the most …
We have been involved in training in Italian hospitals since 2007; in 2022, we launched the Memory Box project, which has already involved thousands of hospital health workers, students and …
In an interview with The Guardian, Florence Welch, lead singer and songwriter of Florence + The Machine, spoke for the first time about the extrauterine pregnancy she experienced in the …
“Mom” and “dad”: how beautiful these words, full of love and meaning, among the first words we say as children.
Each has a story. His. Each is a story. His. To tell our story, to face adversity, bitterness, challenges and joys, it is necessary to have a web of memories, …
I have read so many of your testimonies, in times perhaps not suspicious. I caressed the pain of others, trying not to turn my face in front of what is …
Thousands of women face an interruption of pregnancy in the first twenty weeks of gestation for pre-existing health reasons or for serious risks related to the continuation of pregnancy (as …
What is the use of silencing women affected by perinatal bereavement? To keep this taboo alive, to make them feel isolated, wrong, different. Women affected by abortion and perinatal death …
Miscarriage is an extremely common occurrence in women of childbearing age but it is something that is not easily talked about. Or rather, it’s something you don’t want to hear.
