"The House in Ollie's Tummy" is a resource for parents to support their kids through perinatal bereavement. We are thrilled to announce the launch of this website, built to raise money towards our picture book and inform parents, caregivers and the public about this initiative.
Who is running this project?
This project is an in-house initiative run by the registered bereavement care charity Possum Portraits. The charity focusses on supporting families who have suffered pregnancy or baby loss by providing unique, personalised grief support.
Our current core program centres around providing families with perinatal loss portrait drawings of the baby/ies which families have lost to miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death.
What's the project about?
With "The House in Ollie's Tummy" Possum Portraits is establishing a new support program aimed specifically at supporting children through the bereavement of their - often unborn - sibling. The picture book is intended to help parents broach difficult topics like grief and loss, and to provide an anchor point for conversations with a bereaved parent's living children.
Our classic 32-page picture book is an age-appropriate medium for children aged between 2 and 6 years of age. This age range in existing children captures the time frame in which parents commonly fall pregnant with a subsequent child, whose loss ostensibly affects the existing sibling, too.
Who can use this book?
The primary beneficiaries of this project will be bereaved parents and their children - ones who have already suffered bereavement, and those who will sadly but inevitably suffer bereavement in the future.
The book may also be used by child psychologists, counsellors, social workers and other care providers, whose arsenal of support tools and resources for helping children cope with loss and bereavement will be broadened with the publication of this book.
Furthermore, by giving 500 copies of our book away to hospitals and public libraries around Australia, we are hoping to secure bereaved parents' access to this new grief resource.
Support The Project
Making "The House in Ollie's Tummy" become a reality relies heavily on funding. Without securing the book's printing and distribution costs, we cannot proceed as planned. So if you would like to make a difference in the lives of children who have lost a sibling, please donate by clicking the button in the website header!
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