A little lifetime: a booklet for parents and families who have died around the time of birth
dc.contributor.author | Irish Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (ISANDS) | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-16T09:50:18Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2015-09-16T09:50:18Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 1997 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Irish Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society. 1997. A little lifetime: a booklet for parents and families who have died around the time of birth. Dublin: Irish Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/577372 | en |
dc.description | Each year in Ireland approximately 500 babies die around the time of birth. As a result a large number of parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents and friends are bereaved. In recent years there has been much better realisation of the trauma caused by these deaths. There have been major improvements in the care given in hospitals to families bereaved by such a death. We are more aware that everyone's grief is different. However, there are still problems. Parents find it very difficult to make any sense out of the death of their baby. Not only has their baby died, their future child has also died. Most of us feel uncomfortable when faced by a crying parent. We find it hard to know what to say to children when their baby brother or sister has died. One parent said recently "I want to talk and talk and talk about it but no one wants to listen". This booklet will be a great help not only for grieving families but also for anyone who comes in contact with these families. It will help us realise that the death of a baby is a huge tragedy, that grief has to be worked through, that there is no time scale for this work to be completed and that everyone's grief is different. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Department of Health. Health Promotion Unit. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Irish Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (ISANDS) | en_GB |
dc.subject | INFANT MORTALITY | en_GB |
dc.subject | GRIEF | en_GB |
dc.subject | BEREAVEMENT | en_GB |
dc.subject | BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING | en_GB |
dc.title | A little lifetime: a booklet for parents and families who have died around the time of birth | en_GB |
dc.type | Report | en |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-27T09:20:01Z |