Event Details
Childbirth educators and doulas are uniquely positioned to offer comfort, support and understanding when a client’s pregnancy ends in a loss, or when childbirth follows a loss experience. This session will facilitate a deeper understanding of pregnancy loss at any point during gestation, and the impact it may have on a couple’s relationship with each other, their children at home, their extended family members and their plans for the future. Participants will learn to recognize the stages of grief and offer supportive guidance to clients in the moment to ensure the start of a healthy grief process.
Virtual workshop hosted on Zoom. Link will be provided via email.
Registration is open up until 20 minutes before the event start time.
Instructor
Frances T. McCarthy, MS, RNC-NIC, CPLC
Fran McCarthy has been a nurse for over 35 years. For 28 years she was a Neonatal Intensive Care nurse at New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital where she cared for critically ill newborns and first began to understand how to care for families facing loss, death and bereavement. For over 5 years she has been the Clinical Coordinator of the Neonatal Comfort Care Program at NYP Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital under the direction of Dr. Elvira Parravicini, attending Neonatologist in the NICU. The primary focus of this program is to provide perinatal palliative care to women who are pregnant with babies with life-limiting conditions. The program accompanies mothers and their partners and families through pregnancy, birth and the grieving process. Fran considers this work a privilege and feels she receives much more than she gives.
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