Baby Loss Counselling

At Making Miracles,

our Mission is to ensure

no one ever feels alone in

birth trauma and baby loss.

Making Miracles offers families professional face to face or online counselling to anyone who is struggling after the loss of a baby. The counselling is specialist and specific to the needs of the individual, couple or child and the type of loss that they have experienced.

Counselling is not a support to help you move on from your loss but to validate your trauma, your feelings and help you understand how to move forward. Counselling also provides security and supports your mental and physical health.

There is no criteria around time frame with Making Miracles, we see parents and families who have lost at any stage of pregnancy or during/ shortly after birth. This is as early as from a positive pregnancy test and goes up to a 12 month old who may have passed away following a complication in pregnancy or during birth, premature birth, neonatal death or SIDS.

Following counselling families may become involved in our other care services or if counselling is not for you we also offer peer support services which are less formal where you can meet relatable and supportive people who understand exactly what you are going through. No one is alone in baby loss.

Getting support through Making Miracles makes you part of a bigger cause, helping to reduce isolation in baby loss and birth trauma.

People who enter our service usually come in on a well being score of 2-3 out of 10 and leave on at least an 8, this shows how effective our service is.

Supporting You

For Parents

We can see parents independently or together as a couple. If they are feeling connected together but face individual struggles we would suggest separate counselling. This will help bring individual emotions to the surface and work through grief in a private and safe environment.

Many relationships struggle in grief and this is why we offer couples counselling, it is very common and nothing to be ashamed of. Our counsellors help couples reconnect and communicate as part of a positive and helpful process.

For Siblings

We provide Play Therapy to children to help them navigate their challenges and emotional

well being after loss.

Children (aged 6 -12) expecting a baby to arrive home and then not understanding why this hasn’t happened may struggle with their emotions, in school and everyday life. We want to help relieve the stresses of dealing with this alongside a loss and therefore have developed a Play Therapy Service for our families.

Play Therapy is a therapeutic approach developed to help children between the ages of six to twelve years old.

For Grandparents

We provide counselling to support Grandparents.

Grandparents are often forgotten in grief, but their struggle is very complex and difficult. They are not only grieving the loss of their grandchild but they also have had to see their own child go through the worst experience of their lives and are left on the sidelines not knowing what to do or how to help. It is all beyond their control and they feel helpless. We understand the complexities they face and we are here for them to help support them.

Pregnancy After Loss

We understand that parents finding out they are pregnant again after a loss or multiple loss is a very daunting and triggering time. Not only because of what has happened in the past but also the feelings associated with moving forward in life and all the emotions that may arise with

that process.

It is understandably not an easy time and expectant parents may not be feeling as excited as they had hoped to. This is why we offer counselling throughout their pregnancy. We catch up around key milestones and scans and we make sure they feel supported and safe through tothe birth.

Our Counsellors

Our counsellors are trained, highly experienced specialists in Baby Loss, the trauma and unique grief that follows loss. They work with a range of techniques and skills, which is unique and individual to the parent or family. We understand that no grief is the same and very individual to the person experiencing it and we use our experience spanning over 10 years of working and supporting families through loss as well as our therapeutic professional qualifications.