BABYLOSS BEREAVEMENT SERVICE

CHUMS Babyloss

Chums Babyloss Bereavement Service offers compassionate support to bereaved parents and families who have experienced the death of their baby through a late miscarriage (18 weeks+), a compassionate termination, a stillbirth or a neonatal death, where your baby may have lived for minutes, hours, days or weeks.

We are so sorry to know that you may be reading this because your baby has died. There can be little as devastating as the death of a child, and it may seem like the end of your world. You may feel shocked, numb, angry, guilty, deeply sad or possibly completely overwhelmed. Every bereaved parent’s experience is individual, there is no one right way to think or feel.

You are not alone

Chums Babyloss Bereavement Service is here to support you in any way that we can.

We offer understanding, advice, guidance, bereavement support and counselling now and in the time ahead. We support grieving parents through challenging times including funerals, returning to work, anniversaries and special days.  We also offer ongoing support through future rainbow pregnancies.

“CHUMS gave us a lifeline when we were sinking”
– Parent

“Thank you for the support –
you gave me strength and hope.”
– Bereaved mother

“Very glad we attended the meeting and knowing that we are not alone in this journey made things a little easier”
– Bereaved couple

Chums Babyloss Bereavement Service offers bereavement support and counselling through:

  • Face to face, telephone and virtual bereavement support sessions

  • Home visits

  • 1:1 support and counselling for individuals and for couples

  • Support for siblings and for grandparents

  • Monthly Snowdrop bereavement support groups for bereaved parents, which give the opportunity to meet others in similar circumstances

  • Monthly Dad’s support groups

  • Bi-monthly Sunrise and Sunset support groups for bereaved parents where one baby in a multiple pregnancy has died.

  • Monthly Rainbow support groups in subsequent pregnancies

  • Closed Facebook groups

  • Annual Memory Day in the summer

  • Annual Snowdrop Remembrance Service

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Make a Referral

To make a referral to the Babyloss service, please click the link below.

Make A Babyloss Referral

Please note: It is important to us that the support we offer is right for you. If you do not feel that you would like support or information straightaway, please remember that you can contact us at a later date when the time feels right. We are also more than happy for a family member, friend or member of the hospital/community/GP to contact us on your behalf. We will then give you a call at a time that feels right for you.