I’m a dad who lost my baby. How am I supposed to grieve?
The IndependentWhen the doctor told us, in a room full of beeping, ringing alarms and panicked healthcare staff, that our baby boy Sasha’s heart had stopped beating, I suddenly felt like I wasn’t a modern man in an advanced society – I was just a scared mammal. I know many families who don’t get the mental health support they need from the NHS and cannot afford to pay for private bereavement counselling. The costs – of losing a job or income, of paying for mental health support, of living with post-traumatic stress – also pile up and some parents rightly want some compensation. When these dominoes fall in line, the knock-on cost falls on patients and survivors – we pay the costs of funerals, sick days, lost income, mental health support, family and relationship breakdown, and higher medical-associated bills in current and future pregnancies.
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