Events, resources and articles

You can be put in touch with one of our telephone befrienders by calling (029) 2081 0800. All our befrienders have experienced the death of a child and understand the emotions involved and the feelings of utter despair. Many bereaved parents find it helpful to talk to someone who has some understanding and insight into what they’re going through.

We also offer you hope and support through…

Events

• A Day for Bereaved Parents
• A Weekend for Bereaved Parents

Email newsletter

• Sign up for the Bereaved Parents' Network free bi-monthly email newsletter here.
• You can read the latest issue of the Bereaved Parents' Network newsletter here.

Book

• Bereaved - responding to grief, disappointment and loss

Support Net – online help for you and families you know

• The Loss of a Child – Support Net sheet (PDF)
• The Loss of a Child: Parent's Grief – Support Net sheet (PDF)
• Understanding Bereavement – Support Net sheet (PDF)
• Miscarriage – Support Net sheet (PDF)

Practical articles

• Maintaining your relationship as parents after your child has died
• When a marriage didn't survive the death of a child...
• The challenge of Katie's death to our marriage
• 'Questions and Answers' about 'A Day for Bereaved Parents'
• A Day for Bereaved Parents' - a glimpse into what happens at the event
• Discover a new sense of freedom as you grieve - and a powerful symbol of release
• Coping with Christmas
• 'It was good to have time to be myself' - Nigel reflects on the Weekend for Bereaved Parents and Adult Siblings, October 2009
• Milestones and tripwires
• Facing some of the ‘should-have-beens’
• “Jonathan needed full-time care, but we’d never imagined him dying”
• What is different about losing a child with additional needs?
• Answering those "difficult questions"
• "How many children do you have?"
• "Our only child has gone forever" - Neil and Sally's story
• When your only child has died
• Things that childless parents sometimes think and feel
• 'It wasn't the Christmas we'd imagined'
• Can we cancel Christmas?
• How others have coped with Christmas
• Making Christmas special for the family - when you're all feeling sad
  
• Who can you talk to when your world collapses?
• "Where can we go when no-one knows what to say to us?" - how the Bereaved Parents' Network helped Harry and Angela
• Have you ever felt lost?
• ‘Tears in Heaven’
• When Natalie was diagnosed with cancer - Lynn's story
• A hand through the darkness - helping people walk through their grief
• Surrounded by love
• That dreaded 'knock in the night' - Nich and Diana tell you about the day their son, James, died
• Struggles and helps

 

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