Today's idea: a workshop for professionals when a baby dies in hospital

Suggestions for a NOT OUT OF MIND workshop based in a general hospital:

When a baby dies in hospital
A one- day workshop about a hidden and inadequately addressed area of grief in families

AM:
A medical problem
Discussion of the incidence of the death of a baby and some of the medical problems. Radiographers midwives and nurses are also involved. Miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth neonatal death.

A personal problem
The parents view. The mother who goes through it and loses the baby she has carried for so long. The father who loses a baby he will never hold or know. When professionals have experienced the death of a baby too. The psychological effects of dis-allowed mourning.

A professional problem
"Don’t worry, there will be other babies" . Standard procedures that make things worse. Funeral directors and hospital porters find it hard to deal with. An unaddressed area of care.

PM:
The professional response: Towards good practice.

• Touch and hold: contact with the dead baby.
• A dignified ending: to sluice or not to sluice?
• What can we say?
• Blessings, funerals, memorials, general baby bereavement services

Invite:

Nurses; Midwives; Gynaecologists; Obstetricians; SCBU professionals Hospital porters; Funeral directors; Hospital chaplains

Comments welcomed!