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?

Thank you for your support everyone.

It is bitter sweet. In an ideal world this thread and request wouldn't have been needed or wanted.

My heart breaks for everyone on you who have suffered that truly indescribable pain and anguish.

Thank you, form the bottom of my broken heart x

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@HijHij we've created a new board here, under the Body & Soul topic. We hope it becomes a supportive place for anyone grieving. Thanks so much for the suggestion.

Thank you Mumsnet 💕

Thank you so much. I hope it doesn't need to be used, but that it will become a safe sanctuary for those grieving.

I think it's a good idea, but there could be some issues with blurred edges.

I think it should include late miscarriages - delivering a 22wo is likely to be as traumatic as a 25wo.

But then if you include issue miscarriages, then people will define 'late' however they want, and you'll still end up with a lot of the early miscarriage posts.

And there's genuinely a gray area, say late teens gestation - whereas its a totally different thing from an early miscarriage, but perhaps wouldn't belong in a stillbirth board either.

I hope if it were expanded to cover late miscarriages, then people would sensibly police themselves.

I support this. 🌸to those who need it.

This would be perfect as I just lost my son at 26 weeks which is neonatal I would support this topic too! As regarding miscarriage, still birth and adult loss. I had my son premature and he was with us for 7 days before passing but I barely find any comparisons

We are so, so very sorry.

Lots of posters will be waiting with open arms on the new board.

All our love and best wishes,
MNHQ

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Parents have lost children in so many different ways. I lost my first beautiful wanted daughter to cot death. There's so many circumstances and variables where a child is lost. Maybe some topic like 'child loss?

Hi why did this thread go quiet I really think it’s very unique I lost my full term baby on the 21st of July please can we continue any updates how is everyone feeling?

@Daisy155 sorry for your loss. This thread went quiet because a new board was created, you can find it under Bereavement.

@TeenDivided thank you so much I will go and look for it thank you so much

Here it is Daisy.
www.mumsnet.com/talk/stillbirth-and-neonatal-death

I'm so sorry, and hope that you find the boards useful.

Until it happens to you I don’t think there’s much awareness of how many very late miscarriages and stillbirths there are. With the staffing levels and general crisis In the NHS I dont expect the figures to go down either which is so heartbreaking to think about. Every wait to be seen, every wait for a test result, every delay can be a matter of life or death. I’d support this 100%. There are many topics that could be removed to make way for this. Some have virtually no traffic. Sadly, this topic is so needed.

In support of this.

Hello, all.

We just wanted to post a link to the new board for those who haven't found their way to it yet:

www.mumsnet.com/talk/stillbirth-and-neonatal-death

We hope there can be some comfort and community found there for those who are going through this.