perinatal psychology

Listen to How hard your heart beats for me Wislawa Szymborska

In this article we talk about how important trauma-oriented psychological intervention is during hospitalization in the case of perinatal bereavement. Unfortunately in our country few hospital settings are equipped to…

Perinatal bereavement is a very painful experience that affects all members of the family: parents, grandparents, uncles and siblings, however, little is said about it and the attention, when there…

“Childbirth is a change and it doesn’t matter if you’ve already had eight babies. It is always a change the time another baby is born, because you are no longer…

The “A book a day” project begins today, designed to reach all parents who are facing perinatal bereavement in these complex days.

When I lost my son there were no words to say it: I had to invent them.

CiaoLapo Onlus promotes the first exploratory research in Italy on pregnancies following perinatal bereavement. It does this by giving a direct voice to mothers and their experiences of loss and…

Perinatal bereavement is always an emotionally complex topic; when it concerns a couple who has a history of infertility and related treatments behind them, perinatal bereavement can become very difficult…

Pregnancy is a unique and precious time, in which numerous changes take place. The experience of waiting, different from woman to woman, in our culture is rather sweetened and trivialized.…

Sometimes mourning is a matryoshka: while you think you have to elaborate one, a smaller, more subtle, less showy one appears inside. A very common matryoshka bereavement occurs when a…