‘I was on my own for my pregnancy, I was excited but scared too you know. Her dad [baby’s dad] was in jail for drink driving. I stopped drinking for her but it was still hard, my dad and I don’t talk and my mother passed. I was sometimes stressing out’. ...
Starship Children’s Health has a single, part-time, specialized bereavement worker who co-ordinates bereavement care. The pediatric and neonatal ICU’s have dedicated nursing hours to allow phone follow up of families that had a child or baby die in their respective units. The identification of...