Caring for parents

Parents who lose a child often carry a burden of guilt or failure, as if they have somehow broken the natural order. "This is not how it was meant to be," you may say. Grandparents suffer differently: their own grief, and the grief of watching their adult child grieve.

From the experience of parents we have cared for or our own, we know that each of these losses carries its own particular sorrow. And we know that each can be attended to with tenderness:

• Care after a Miscarriage

• Care after a Stillbirth

• Care after the loss of a Baby after Birth

• Care after the loss of a Young Child

• Care after the loss of a Teenager