Grieving the loss of a child

Martin Edwards, Chief Executive for Julia’s House, the Dorset and Wiltshire Children’s hospices, shares his insights on bereavement, remembrance and finding a way forward when your child has died.

He discusses the emotions parents and family members might experience in the early days of grief and how it evolves over time, while offering advice and guidance on coping with anniversaries and birthdays and ways families can commemorate their child’s life.

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Forest Holme Hospice provides palliative and end-of life-care and support to more than 1,500 people each year across Poole, Wimborne and the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses such as Motor Neurone Disease, Parkinson’s, heart disease and respiratory illness.

Forest Holme Hospice Charity was set-up to ensure that everyone in the local community affected by a life-limiting illness or bereavement gets the care and support they need, either at home or in our dedicated hospice facility.

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