A caring service for those who lose a baby
Saturday marks the completion of a two-year rollout of national standards to ensure that parents who lose a baby are cared for with compassion, writes
ANNA Maria Verling, bereavement clinical midwife specialist in Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH), says there was a time, many moons ago, when babies who died during or after childbirth “were taken away from parents and buried in the darkness”.
