Suggestions on how to support grieving family members, like being there, listening, and using the babies name.
Family Stories: Bereaved Family and Friends
Supporting Queer Parents Through Loss: A Compassionate Approach
Suggestions on how to support grieving family members, like being there, listening, and using the babies name.
Supporting Parents Through Grief After a Stillbirth or Perinatal Death
Suggestions on how to support grieving family members, like being there, listening, and using the babies name.
Supporting Families Coping with Loss during Subsequent Pregnancies
Suggestions on how to support grieving family members, like being there, listening, and using the babies name.
Introduction of the Parent Supporter Role
Suggestions on how to support grieving family members, like being there, listening, and using the babies name.
A Grandparents Guide: Searching for Help or Support for Yourself
Suggestions on how to support grieving family members, like being there, listening, and using the babies name.
Especially for Grandfathers
If you are a bereaved grandfather, it may be especially hard to grieve the loss of your grandchild for two reasons. Firstly, your grief may be minimised by people who don’t consider the grandfather/grandchild relationship to be very important. You will be expected to concern yourself with your children and your wife. People often do […]
Nola’s Story – A Grandmother’s Grief
The death of a grandchild is one of the hardest things a grandparent ever has to face. Like all of us, grandparents expect that they will love and enjoy their grandchildren, but that the natural order of things is that they will die before their own children – and certainly before their grandchildren. When a […]
Community Connections Events
Find Belonging in a Relaxed Setting At Red Nose Australia, we know that healing after the loss of a child is a unique and deeply personal journey. Our Community Connections Activities offer relaxed, informal spaces where you can meet others who truly understand your grief, without the pressure of a structured conversation. Whether it’s a […]
Peer Support
Peer Support: A Shared Journey of Healing Losing a baby or child is an unimaginable tragedy, and no one should have to go through it alone. At Red Nose, we offer Peer Support as a vital part of our Grief and Loss services. Our Peer Supporters are parents who have experienced the loss of a […]
Frequently Asked Questions
Grief is a deeply personal journey, and it’s natural to have questions as you navigate this complex experience. This FAQ page provides answers to some of the most common questions asked by individuals and families who are coping with loss. Whether you’re seeking support for yourself or trying to help someone else, this page offers […]
It’s Not Meant To Be Like This – Paul’s story
My name is Paul. My wife, Mari, and I are parents of Harrison, Mia, Lachlan and Poppy. Harrison is 6, Mia is eternally 5 days old, Lachlan forever 4 days old and Poppy is 18 months old. Mia & Lachlan would have been three but were born at 25 weeks after Mari had spent a […]
A Grandparents Thoughts In Honour Of Precious Grandson
I had always thought that no experience could be more wondrous and exciting than holding each of my own babies after their births. But in fact, as I watched my daughter hold close her precious, newborn son, Lucien, my heart was filled with double happiness, as I not only celebrated with Niki and David their […]
This Is Fionas Story
The friend of a bereaved mum pays tribute to Jude who died at 5 years of age from an undetected heart defect in 2011. Jude was the kind of child who took your breath away. When he died, two days before Christmas 2011, it was sudden, unexpected and incomprehensible. This cheeky, knock-about five-year-old, whom we […]
I Look Up At The Stars And I Think Of You
I look up at the stars and I think of you. The stars are my guiding light, They symbolize big changes and a turning point in my life. Your brief lifetime has forever changed my life. My child, such precious, fragile beauty, Stars are a symbol of hope and good luck, a wish for success […]
