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"Our sleeping angel baby"

About: Psychological therapies / Maternity and Neonatal Psychological Intervention Services (MNPI)

(as a service user),

At the start of my pregnancy everything went smoothly as you’d expect for the 1st 3/12 weeks of my pregnancy a bit of morning sickness but nothing too concerning.   When we went to my 12 week we were told there was too much fluid on the baby's neck, but by 15 weeks there wasn’t much fluid around him at all.  Though everyone attempt to figure this out nothing could be done and I brought our gorgeous baby boy into the world at 36 weeks sleeping. After a weeks stay with him we finally went home and carried on with our “new” adjusted life with the heartache of not having our boy.

Me and my husband were referred over to Psychological Therapy with a trained “Maternal loss therapist” and we met Jen and she was and has been out rock in our journey in grief without our son. Without her helping us pointing us in a different direction helping us figure out what our grief was and different solutions and ways to help us cope I don’t think we would have made it. She took her time with us and made sure we felt respected and cared for and sometime we’d come out of appointments feeling guided like we weren’t going crazy for how we were feeling. 

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Response from Rachel Vickers, Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Head of Clinical Health Psychology, Clinical Psychology, NHS Forth Valley 2 years ago
Rachel Vickers
Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Head of Clinical Health Psychology, Clinical Psychology,
NHS Forth Valley
Submitted on 08/06/2023 at 12:03
Published on Care Opinion at 12:05


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Dear cubeep98,

I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your baby boy. Thank you for providing feedback on the support you received at this difficult time. I am pleased to hear that the care you and your husband had from Jen was helpful to make sense of your grief and to help you cope with your heartache of life without your son.

I will pass on your feedback to Jen herself and to senior team leaders.

Thank you for taking the time to post your comments,

Best Wishes

Rachel

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