Study Days 2016 - Infant Loss and Bereavement

£25 to include resources and certification

 

Bookings: info@chantallockey.co.uk

 

10am -3pm

 

Thursday 1 September - London

Friday 2 September - Birmingham

Saturday 8 October: Cambridge

Saturday 15 October: London

Saturday 29 October: Birmingham

 

 

Course Content:

 

• A personal account of losing a baby to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

• What is an infant loss?

• Types of loss

• Why do babies die?

• How as a Midwife/ Nurse this is something that you cannot pretend, wont happen to you. It will. 

• Videos “The Deafening Silence”

• The Flexmort Cuddle Cot – A demonstration 

• Bereavement Suites

• Breaking bad news, including unexpected loss in A and E

• The likely physical and emotional reactions to loss

• Men and women, the grief differences

• Still birth – The fear of giving birth and seeing their baby and how you as a Midwifery professional can best assist

• Making Memories for the family – things and time -experiences

• Spending time with their baby

• A sense of innocence

• How the baby may physically look -Preparation

• How to care for the baby

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  How can you as a Professional care for yourself when assisting with infant loss

• The issue of Post mortem and the Coroner Registering a baby after loss

• The option of taking baby home

• SIDS-   when a baby dies at home

• Remembering baby

• Healing after loss

• What next? Counselling? Trying again The Emotional rollercoaster that is subsequent pregnancies after loss

• CONI – The Care of the Next Infant Scheme