A Counseling Guide for Engaging Bereaved Mothers

Related program: Integrated Maternal and Child Health and Development

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This guide is intended for health care workers who work with bereaved mothers and families dealing with perinatal loss. This may include nurses, lactation consultants, physicians, registered dietitians, midwives, bereavement counselors, human milk bank workers, among other health professionals.

The purpose of this guide is to help health care workers appropriately and sensitively discuss lactation options for bereaved mothers.