New Zealand links
Miscarriage Support
www.miscarriagesupport.org.nz
We are a team of volunteers of various ages who have all experienced the loss of our own babies and would like to provide emotional support and information for women and their families during and after miscarriage and subsequent pregnancies
Twin Loss NZ
www.twinloss.org.nz
A New Zealand wide group for those who have lost one or more or all of their twins, triplets or more from early pregnancy to childhood and beyond, including the loss of a twin sibling in adulthood.
TABS (Trauma and Birth Stress)
www.tabs.org.nz
TABS is Trauma And Birth Stress, a Charitable Trust that serves as a support group of mothers. We have in common stressful and traumatic pregnancies or births that affected our lives negatively for months or years afterwards. We formed TABS because of the need to make PTSD known as a form of mental illness that can happen following childbirth, but quite distinct from the Baby Blues, Post Natal Depression (Post Partum Depression) and Post Natal Psychosis.
Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee
www.pmmrc.health.govt.nz
The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) is an independent committee that advises the Minster of Health on how to reduce the number of deaths of babies and mothers in New Zealand. The PMMRC was established in June 2005 under sections 11 and 18 of the New Zealand Health and Disability Act 2000. The Committee met for the first time in August 2005.
Christchurch Multiple Birth Club Bereavement Support
www.cmbc.co.nz/whatweoffer.html#bereavement bereavementsupport@xtra.co.nz
CMBC Bereavement Support gently offers all families practical resources, creating of tangible keepsakes and emotional support before, during or after the birth and bereavement of a pregnancy, baby or infant twins, triplets or high multiples.
Contact: Karen Jefferson 021 1684 185
Nurture www.nurture.org.nz The Nurture Foundation for Reproductive Research is committed to helping New Zealanders have families. Through research we aim to find new ways to predict and prevent reproductive problems, and improve treatments for couples unable to conceive or carry a child to term.
SIDS New Zealand www.sids.org.nz SIDS New Zealand Incorporated is a national organisation of parents, families and friends of children who have died suddenly and/or unexpectedly of any cause including SIDS.
Internet forums
You can talk with other parents who have experienced the death of a baby
The Lost Ones
www.thelostones.co.nz
This site was created because of the limited support and resources that are available here in New Zealand for people who have suffered from or who are still suffering from now, the loss of a child through Miscarriage, Stillbirth or SIDS.
Click on 'forum' for the discussion pages.
Everybody.co.nz
www.everybody.co.nz
Everybody aims to provide useful and accurate consumer health information for New Zealanders. It is written and reviewed by medical writers, consumer health organisations and health professionals. Click on 'community' for the discussion pages; the Stillbirth/Neonatal Death page is at the very bottom of the discussion pages under the heading of Miscarriage Support.
International websites
International Stillbirth Alliance
www.stillbirthalliance.org
The International Stillbirth Alliance (ISA), a non-profit coalition of organizations dedicated to understanding the causes and prevention of stillbirth. Its mission is to raise awareness, educate on recommended precautionary practices and facilitate research on the prevention of stillbirth. ISA serves as a centralized resource for sharing information and connecting organisations and individuals.
SANDS Australia
www.sands.org.au
SANDS Queensland
www.sandsqld.com
SANDS Victoria
www.sandsvic.org.au
SANDS South Australia
www.communitywebs.org/StillbirthNeonatalDeathSupportSA/
Sands UK
www.uk-sands.org
MISS Foundation (USA)
www.missfoundation.org
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Upcoming Events
Coronation Street stillbirth storyline
In late April- early May, Coronation St aired episodes in the UK that included a stillbirth experienced by one of their central characters. In the UK, ITV and Sands UK worked together to ensure that contact details for support and information followed each episode. We are hoping to provide similar local information when the episodes are aired here in NZ.
Baby Loss Awareness Week 9-15 October 2008
We will be posting details of activites taking place around the country During Baby Loss Awareness Week - so watch this space!