Miscarriage and Stillbirth Support
You will find both practical information and emotional support resources to enable you to feel informed and supported throughout your journey. Please know that you are not alone - there is help and support available to you. You can get in touch with our Bereavement Team should you need support at any time following your loss.
Emotional Support
The Lily-Mae Foundation
The Lily-Mae Foundation is a Birmingham-based charity that we work very closely with. They support families following loss through 1:1 sessions, support groups, dad-specific support, and memory boxes.
Edwards Trust
Edwards Trust is a West Midlands-based charity that offers a holistic approach to supporting people through bereavement and loss. They offer counselling, support groups, wellbeing therapies and social events. You can self-refer to all of their services.
Counselling | Edward's Trust (edwardstrust.org.uk)
Wellbeing | Edward's Trust (edwardstrust.org.uk)
Tommys
Tommy’s is a national charity that supports people after a loss via information, Facebook forums and midwives helplines.
Wellbeing After Miscarriage Programme
Aching Arms & Supporting Arms
Aching Arms provides support to families following loss in the form of free comfort teddy bears, a telephone and email support line, and an online support group for Dads.
Supporting Arms – the support service from Aching Arms
The Shia Family
The Shia Family offers personalised memorial items and creative memorial workshops and events to families who have lost a baby.
Supportive Community and Upcoming Events
Twins Trust
Twins Trust Bereavement Service offers compassionate support to families experiencing the loss of one or more of a set of twins or triplets. Support includes peer support, online communities, and resources
Sands
Sands is a nationwide charity that offers support to anyone touched by pregnancy loss or the death of a baby. Some of the services they offer include a free helpline, a network of support groups, and online forums.
About Sands and the support they offer
Saying Goodbye
Saying Goodbye provides comprehensive information, advice, support and much more to anyone who has suffered the loss of a baby, at any stage of pregnancy. They hold remembrance services across the UK, and their founder, Zoe Clark-Coates, has published books to support people through their baby loss journey.
Patient Leaflets
Support following the loss of your baby
Donating Breast Milk After Loss
Breast Care After Loss
Consent to a PM Examination
Exercise After Loss
Woodland House
Your rights and entitlements if you have a miscarriage
Your rights and benefits after a stillbirth
Your rights and benefits if your baby died shortly after birth
Mental Health Support
- NHS - Call 999 if your life is at risk
- NHS - Call 111 if you need help for your mental health but it is not an emergency
- Samaritans – call 116 123 for their 24/7 helpline
- Shout – text ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 to access their crisis text line
- Birmingham and Solihull Urgent Mental Health Helpline – 0121 262 3555 or 0800 915 9292
- Self-refer to Birmingham Healthy Minds for support for depression and anxiety:
- Birmingham Healthy Minds - Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Maternal Mental Health Service | Birmingham and Solihull ICS
- Maternal Mental Health Service – please ask your bereavement nurse about a referral to the Birmingham Maternal Mental Health Service if you feel you would benefit from specialist mental health support following the loss of your baby.
Support for Partners
Partners need support too. Please find information about support available below, and know that you are not alone.
Supporting Arms— Monthly virtual support group and guided journal resource for Dads.
Lily Mae Foundation — ‘Still Parents’ podcast, 1:1 support, and WhatsApp group for Dads and Granddads
Tommy’s — Resources for partners.
Miscarriage Association — Resources for dads and partners
Sands — Virtual support groups, online forums, and football clubs for bereaved men.
Rose and Daisy — A football club for dads who have experienced baby loss (Bromsgrove-based).
Child Bereavement UK – Support and counselling for partners.
Sibling Support
If you have children who are affected by the loss of their sibling, the following organisations offer support to grieving children and their parents.
Support for children | Lily Mae Foundation
Lily-Mae provides sibling packs for children who have experienced loss, as well as offering therapeutic play and days out so that siblings can meet other children who have experienced loss.
Miscarriage Association - Talking to children after miscarriage — This leaflet aims to help you discuss miscarriage with children.
Edward's Trust | Helping children and families facing loss and surviving bereavement.
Edward’s Trust supports children, young people and families facing loss and surviving bereavement across the West Midlands.
Guy’s Gift delivers bereavement support for children and young people throughout Coventry and Warwickshire.
Child Bereavement UK supports families and educates professionals when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying, or when a child is facing bereavement.