perinatal bereavement

Assisting perinatal death: The role of hospital staff in supporting bereaved parents and family members The death of a child in the perinatal period is a serious…

A TIN mother gives us her rich testimony as a mother, a woman and a professional who lived the experience of the death of her premature baby, describing with so…

Dear Doctor X, you will most likely not remember me, I am Katia, Angelo’s mother. Angelo was born in his hospital on 26-03-2010. March 26, 25 weeks.

“My dear, you must be strong now!” accompanied by a warm handshake and a knowing look, winking at the partner who caresses that heartbeat-free belly with tears. Thus begins the…

We publish with great satisfaction the Interview with Dr. MP Valentina Giuliano, who graduated with us in anthropology with a study on “special mothers”: what they are, who they are,…

T he parents of children who died during pregnancy or childbirth is a very special bereavement: a bereavement that seems to have no right to exist.

“While I was still in the irreparable, the rest of the world had started to turn again” – Aptonomia di Anna Maria Castoldi “Then what you weren’t ready for happens,…

“If I look back in time I see many different and evolved me over the days, but if I have to define the breaking point of what I was from…

60,656,000 people live in Italy, spread across 20 regions and 7998 municipalities. Approximately 500,000 newborns are born alive each year, while another 120,000 die during pregnancy or within a month…

Instinctively, we just want bad things to stop happening. Instinctively, we would at least like it not to happen to us, or to our loved ones. Because contact with pain…