Termination for medical reasons

They also provide specialised bereavement care for those who experience termination for medical reasons.

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Hello and welcome to Time to Talk TFMR, Termination for Medical Reasons.

I'm Hayley and joining me today are Victoria and Jonathan from New Zealand to share their experience of TFMR as a couple with their baby Hugo.

So welcome Victoria and Jonathan.

It's great to have you here.

It included waiting for an ethics panel in the UK, possibly traveling to Belgium or looking further afield.

So at that point, I was in a state of shock and Jonathan was sort of all, you know, hands on deck, understanding what our various options could be.

One of the great examples of that, and again, I hear this a lot and it's something I felt in my own experience, was I had a D&E because that was the only option that was presented to me.

I learned months later that people could labor and deliver, including in a TFMR program.

And I went through a lot of regret and grief and frustration that that had not been offered to me.

I don't know that I would have chosen that or that that would have been better or worse for me.

We haven't really dove into this conversation on the podcast yet.

Today, I'm sitting down with Jane Armstrong.

She is a licensed therapist who specializes in supporting parents through TFMR or termination for medical reasons.

Jane is also a loss in TFMR mom herself, and she gives us a glimpse into her motherhood journey and tells us all about her beautiful baby Frankie.

This season, we're continuing those conversations.

We'll be sitting down with families who have experienced loss in so many different ways from miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, neonatal and infant loss.

And some of these conversations will be really hard to hear.

But for the families sharing them, they don't often get the option to switch off or scroll past when it becomes uncomfortable.

This season, we're continuing those conversations.

We'll be sitting with families who have experienced loss in so many different ways from miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, neonatal and infant loss.

And some of these conversations will be really hard to hear.

But for those families sharing them.

And this season, we're continuing those conversations.

We'll be sitting down with families who have experienced loss in so many different ways, from miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, neonatal, and infant loss.

And some of these conversations will be really hard to hear.

But for the families that are sharing them, they don't get to switch off or scroll past when it becomes uncomfortable.

This season, we're continuing those conversations.

We'll be sitting down with families who have experienced loss in so many different ways, from miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, neonatal, and infant loss.

Some of these conversations will be hard to hear.

But for the families sharing them, they don't get the option to switch off or scroll past when it becomes uncomfortable.

The stories that so many families live through but often just aren't shared enough.

This season, we're continuing these conversations and we'll be sitting down with families who have experienced loss in so many different ways, from miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, neonatal and infant loss.

Some of these conversations will be really hard to hear.

But for the families sharing them, they don't get the option to switch off or scroll past when it becomes uncomfortable.

They started the podcast as a way to document what life after infant loss feels like, not the sanitized version, but the day-to-day reality of surviving it.

Their focus is SIDS and sudden infant loss, inclusion of stillbirth, miscarriage, TFMR, and other baby loss, long-term grief, not just early shock, the emotional and identity changes after losing a child, what the episodes are like, It's not a structured self-help podcast.

It's more like sitting with two people who are living it in real time.

Common formats are conversations between the two hosts about their week and grief.