Book Launch & Panel Discussion

In an expert panel discussion featuring the author and parents with lived experience of baby loss, we introduce a new psychotherapeutic children's picture book for working through grief with bereaved children.

Focussing specifically on sibling bereavement as a result of miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR and neonatal death, this book opens up a space for conversation between children and caregivers gently but informatively. It introduces the concept of death, feeling confusing emotions and will help parents explain tricky questions about what happened to the baby, where it went, why it died and how to cope with this maddening and difficult emotion called grief.

After experiencing perinatal bereavement, parents face significant emotional upheaval. They may not be in the best shape to meet the often complex emotional and psychological needs of their existing children while struggling with their own trauma.

“The House in Ollie’s Tummy” was written to support both parents and children…