LATE-TERM PREGNANCY LOSS AND STILLBIRTH
A space to hold and process what happened, without rushing toward resolution.
This work is for parents who've experienced a late-term loss or stillbirth, who want a place to process that experience with someone who won't minimize it, rush it, or ask you to move on before you're ready. This may be shortly after the loss, or years later. Grief like this doesn't have an expiration date on when it's appropriate to seek support.
When both your body and mind are prepared to welcome a baby into your family and that reality is abruptly broken, the resulting grief is uniquely complex, encompassing emotional devastation, psychological trauma, and physical postpartum recovery.
Grief after a loss like this doesn't move in a straight line, and it doesn't always look the way people expect grief to look. It may show up as anger, numbness, guilt, or a kind of disorientation that's hard to name. It can surface at unexpected moments: a due date, a pregnancy announcement, a question from a stranger. It can also coexist with other things, like a return to work, a subsequent pregnancy, or the demands of caring for other children.
People around you can misunderstand or minimize it, even those who love you and want to help. You may find yourself holding grief for a child, for a future you'd already begun to imagine, and for a version of yourself as a parent that hasn't had the chance to exist yet.
There is no timeline for this kind of loss, and no way to make sense of it quickly. My goal is to offer a space where you don't have to.
I don't come to this work with an agenda to move you through stages or toward closure. My role is to be present with what's actually here, the loss itself and everything it's brought up about your relationships, your body, your sense of the future, and to help you find language for it at your own pace.
For many parents, part of what's hardest is that the people around them want the grief to resolve faster than it does.
This is a space without that pressure.