Webinar – Baby Loss from a Multiple Pregnancy

Last month, we held our first Footprints Webinar, aimed at Healthcare Professionals wanting to develop their knowledge around bereavement care in twin or triplet baby loss. 

The webinar was jointly run with our charity partners, Millie Cann from The Skye High Foundation and Dr Nicholas Embleton from The purple Butterfly Project. We are so grateful to both of them for sharing their knowledge and experiences to enrich the audience’s understanding around this kind of unique and often complex kind of loss.

We are also extremely grateful to Stephanie Ernst from Taps Support who did an amazing job of hosting the evening for us. 

We had over 50 healthcare professionals attending, from lots of different backgrounds such as midwifery, neonatal nursing, hospice care, psychologists and more. We also had some healthcare professionals joining us from outside the UK, as far away as Australia. 

Sharon and I, as well as Millie, shared our own personal experiences of the death of our twins. Our experiences aligned with the research and feedback Nick presented to the audience of healthcare professionals – that they will be remembered forever in the lives of their patients when a baby or babies die and that what they say and do in these moments can have a lasting impact on a family and their grief. It is sometimes the small things that matter, just showing that genuine care and that human touch.

The feedback from the session was overwhelmingly positive and I am sure we will hold another session like this in the future. 

“Thank you so much, so well organised and I think you are all amazing sharing your stories so bravely and supporting others.”

“Thank you all. It makes me more passionate about care after a loss in multiple pregnancies.”

“Thank you so much everyone. Looking forward to supporting the purple butterfly roll out 2.0 in New Zealand.”

“Thank you so much to everyone; this has been so incredibly useful and I will take this all on board in the work I do.”