stillbirth and neonatal death board.please?

[HijHij]

Can we have a specific stillbirth and neonatal death board
All the miscarriage posts seem to be early loss and bereavement feels to be adult bereavement.

What about the babies who never had a chance to just be?

Support

I would support a bereaved parent board. Dd was 13 months when she died, and I don’t fit into miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death groups, but equally find the bereavement board is mainly loss of parents or adult children. Losing a baby or young child feels so alien on here.

Adding my support

I support this too.

I support this

I haven't been through a loss like this personally but I know people who have and I think it's a much needed space

I would support this.

I support this.

I would 100% support this

@DawnMumsnet

Hi *@HijHij*,

Thanks for starting this thread. In general we've been trying to pare down the number of topics on our Talkboards, but we completely understand your reasons for wanting a specific place to post about this. We're so sorry for what you've been through, OP.

We'll be watching this thread to see how much support there is and will be discussing it with the rest of the team this coming week.

thank you so much for listening.

thank you all so far for the support. it is sad there is call for a board such as this, but think how many parents could find support when nowhere else is open too.

thank you

Supporting

I support.

I support this

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Absolutely support this, and if you’re looking for a board to ditch to keep the number of boards down surely ‘birth announcements’ ‘tattoos’ ‘nurseries’ or ‘baby names’ are all low use contenders that could be phased out or merged somewhere else?

Yes - I agree saddened there isn't one already

I'm surprised there already isn't such a board, totally agree it's needed

I think this is an excellent idea for a new board.

for anyone who needs to use it.

Here to add that I was surprised there wasn't one already. Surely Tattoos doesn't have to be handled on a site for and by parents (sorry to pick on tattoos). There must be plenty of boards that are hardly used now.

Me too

Oh bless you …I 100% support the need for a separate board .
sending you love OP 💐Xx

I think this is a great idea. Most people using the miscarriage forum are people like me that have had miscarriages in the first trimester, got support from the board and haven't needed to return to the miscarriage board after the initial healing process. With a stillbirth the parents will have to go through birth, registering the death, planning a funeral, and will carry the loss of their child with them throughout their lives and will need long term support. I haven't had a stillbirth, I have had 4 miscarriages, and I'm not trying to insinuate that it's easy to go through a miscarriage or anything, they're just different situations with different support needs.

I support this x

I support this. I lost my daughter in November 2019, she was sadly stillborn. I posted on the bereavement page and got lots of support but I echo the view that a specific stillborn/neo natal death page would have helped even more. It's such a horrific thing to experience so having a tailored page where everyone who has been through the same thing and can understand the grief would be so helpful.

This is very much needed.