Death Midwife

When a couple gets pregnant or a baby is born, family and friends gather around the them, joyfully supporting the news. But what happens when something goes wrong, when they experience miscarriage or stillbirth? The surrounding community often ignores the loss, or minimizes it. So healing professionals like Dr. Ivy Margulies make a critical difference, supporting grieving parents through the experience and helping them to honor their children and their grief. Find out what a death midwife does and how Dr. Margulies chose this work. Hear what she has to say about how we as a culture deal with perinatal loss and grief. Unresolved grief can carry into relationships with spouses and with other children in the family. Hear how critical services delivered at the opportune moment can ease the burden of loss and support a healthy grieving.