Perinatal bereavement

Perinatal bereavement covers the period from conception to the child's first birthday.

Has your pregnancy come to an abrupt end?

Are you grieving the loss of a young baby?

Are you mourning an invisible loss? A miscarriage, voluntary or medical termination of pregnancy?

Do the people around you fail to realize the extent of your suffering?

Are you experiencing loss in a different way than your partner?

LumiVie offers support and guidance to parents experiencing perinatal bereavement,

Either through the loss of an embryo, fetus or young baby,

or by the need or choice to interrupt this potential of life.

This is what a therapist specialized in perinatal bereavement can offer you.

LumiVie offers you individual meetings with a therapist who specializes in bereavement.

Here are the benefits:

Active listening to your experiences
A space for your uniqueness
Understanding and normalizing the grieving process
Identification of emotional manifestations and their impact
Confidential discussion with a respectful therapist
Recognition of the effects of this event
Identification of fears for the future

Our services

Resources

Books

On Pinterest

The PO-Thèque of Parents Orphelins

Online resources

A video on fathers’ grief

A film on the NFB website. Moments of Life, Samuel-A. Caron and France Gallant

On the CHU Ste-Justine website:
A four-part series, Revenir les bras vide, in which parents and their loved ones share their stories of perinatal bereavement.

Websites

A McGill Health Centre report on perinatal bereavement

Parents orphelins, Québec association for parents experiencing perinatal bereavement

SoignonsEnsemble.ca

A Canadian Virtual Hospice site on caring for seriously ill children and perinatal bereavement.

The Naître et Grandir website on perinatal bereavement

My involvement with LumiVie started with an experience of perinatal bereavement that I wished that I'd met Lumivie earlier in my life. This opportunity to make a difference for suffering people came at the right time in my life. I wanted to help and make sure that my experience, although unfortunate, could be helpful to others in breaking down specific barriers linked to bereavement in general but perinatal bereavement in particular. The same issues tend to isolate us when we need support. One step at a time, we're reaching more and more people in need.

When I lost my baby during pregnancy, I couldn't stop thinking about my mother, so far away in my native country. At LumiVie, I found the listening and comfort she would have given me. Thank you

Perinatal bereavement