Health professional retreats are 24 hour get-aways for health professionals who care for families experiencing perinatal loss. They generally run from 12:00noon on day 1 to 12:00noon on day 2. There are 3 goals for the retreats: education, self-care, and team-building.
We would love to offer a retreat to your staff! Most retreats will be for an individual facility or organization to improve the team-building and brainstorming activities. Nurses, physicians, midwives, nurse practitioners, social workers, ultrasonographers, clergy, funeral directors, and more are welcome. Contact us to help us plan one for you!
Contact us with any perinatal loss questions and we will do our best to connect you with a researcher or expert in that area!
Our medical advisors are well-respected professionals from around the world who have special interest in perinatal loss. They include obstetricians, nurses, researchers, mental health professionals, neonatologists, midwives, and more. To read their bios, visit our medical team
We would be happy to provide our education materials for your patients free of charge. Please contact us and let us know which ones you’d like and how many.
Materials currently available include:
We recommend expectant families be counseled about the risks of stillbirth as any other potential poor outcome of pregnancy. You can use the recent articles about stillbirth in the media as acknowledgement that they may have heard about this topic or that it does happen. Have an honest discussion about what is known and not known about stillbirth, which stillbirth risk factors are present during this pregnancy, how you plan to monitor and address those risks, and how you would like them to contact you.
Empower your patients to call your office or be seen immediately for any concerns. Many women report that they delayed contacting their provider because they didn’t want to seem paranoid or their concern wasn’t on the list of concerning symptoms.
We recommended explaining that mom is the best monitor for this pregnancy. Every baby and every pregnancy are different. Encourage mom to get to know this baby’s normal behavior and patterns. If any changes occur or she has a feeling that something isn’t right, she should be seen immediately.
For women who want to count kicks, we recommend identifying how long it takes baby to make 10 movements. Do this throughout the pregnancy to identify the baby’s norm. If baby is suddenly much more or less active than this norm, mom should be seen immediately.
Kick counting is controversial because a specific number of kicks in a set amount of time has not been identified as normal or abnormal. However, it has been well documented that mothers noticing a significant change for this baby can be indicative of fetal distress.
Absolutely! We encourage all to attend and learn about emerging topics in stillbirth prevention and how we can all work together for that goal! Visit Stillbirth Summit [link]for more information.
You and your staff are also welcome to use our Support Line to process any emotions you may be experiencing.
We will do our best to support any family. Please contact us to determine what options are best for a specific family.
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