New online course gives deeper understanding of pregnancy loss and neonatal death in a multiple pregnancy

A two-week online course by The Butterfly Project will enable healthcare professionals to gain insight into experiences following multiple pregnancy loss. The course, Loss of a Baby in Multiple Pregnancy: Supporting Grieving Parents, allows users to explore the unique parental experiences of reproductive loss in a multiple pregnancy and the key challenges that arise in hospital wards and after discharge. On the course, users will get to:

• gain a deeper understanding of what parents go through when losing a baby in a multiple pregnancy and how best to support them
• learn about the importance of peer-led discussion and insight sharing
• assess various high-quality learning materials and guidelines surrounding bereavement support
• reflect on the feelings, experiences and complexity of emotions of parents suffering reproductive loss in the context of multiple pregnancy
• deal with the immediate aftermath of the loss
• encourage parents to create memories of the life they’re mourning
• feel more confident in every clinical setting.

This self-guided course is designed for health professionals who work with expecting or recently-bereaved multiple pregnancy parents in any capacity. Doctors, midwives, nurses, counsellors, and psychologists will find it valuable.

The Butterfly Project is a group of academics, doctors, and nurses dedicated to working with parents following neonatal death or pregnancy loss. The course was developed by The Skye High Foundation, Newcastle University and The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Take the course for free here: www.futurelearn.com/courses/loss-of-a-baby-from-a-multiple-pregnancy-the-butterfly-project