Bereavement Assistance
Pregnancy Loss: Surviving Miscarriage and Stillbirth by award winning journalist, Zoe Taylor, is the first complete resource designed to provide information and guidance to support parents, families, friends and health professionals.
SANDS Australia is an Australian national association of stillbirth and neonatal death support organisations supporting families who experience miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal and infant death.
SIDS and Kids Australia provides local support to bereaved families who experience pregnancy loss or whose baby has died in infancy or during their childhood.
Teddy Love Club is a support program for bereaved families who have experienced loss through miscarriage, stillbirth, genetic inducement of labour or neonatal death. The Teddy Love Club provide many support services including free professional telephone counselling 24 hours a day seven days a week (1800 824 240), personal and on-line support, an Australia-wide newspaper, parent to parent network across Australia and group support meetings.
Pregnancy After Loss antenatal support and education group is designed for pregnant parents who have previously lost a baby as a result of stillbirth or death in the newborn period. The group meets in Sydney over several months with a combination of day and evening sessions at no cost. The group is facilitated by Belinda Power, a women's health social worker, and Deborah de Wilde, a midwife and social worker.
OzMOST - Aussie mums of surviving (twinless) twins produces Multiple Care Bereavement Booklets and offers friendship, understanding and mutual support when a baby loses their multiple birth sibling/s during pregnancy, at birth or in infancy, and is raised as a "singleton".
National Premmie Foundation is a parent body that guides and assists premature baby support groups throughout Australia, providing support groups for families whose baby has been born prematurely and raising funds for research.