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Milestones and Transitions: Neonatal Loss - Milestones and Transitions. Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Losses are devastating for parents and their families.
The estimated figure is that miscarriage happens in around 1 in 4 recognized pregnancies, with 85% of those happening in the first trimester. 15% of miscarriages occur in the second trimester up to 20 weeks gestation. Once the fetus / pregnancy has reached 20 weeks, the loss is considered a stillbirth. About one in 125 pregnancies end in a stillbirth. The neonatal mortality rate is 3.4 neonatal deaths per 1000 live births.The term ‘neonatal loss’ describes the death of a child from birth to 12 months of age.
Although these figures may be statistics, they are not statistics when you are the one who has suffered a miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal loss. Pregnancy loss is generally unanticipated in a first pregnancy. Milestones and Transitions: Neonatal Loss - Milestones and Transitions. Neonatal Loss - Milestones and Transitions. Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Losses are devastating for parents and their families.
The estimated figure is that miscarriage happens in around 1 in 4 recognized pregnancies, with 85% of those happening in the first trimester. 15% of miscarriages occur in the second trimester up to 20 weeks gestation. Once the fetus / pregnancy has reached 20 weeks, the loss is considered a stillbirth. About one in 125 pregnancies end in a stillbirth.
The neonatal mortality rate is 3.4 neonatal deaths per 1000 live births. The term ‘neonatal loss’ describes the death of a child from birth to 12 months of age. Although these figures may be statistics, they are not statistics when you are the one who has suffered a miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal loss. ADOPTION REUNION ! - Milestones and Transitions. Ancestry.com; 23and me; AND ME !!!
Genealogical websites like ancestry.com and 23andme.com have transformed the Adoption world. Years ago, an adopted person wanting to access his or her original birth records and social history information, had to jump through many hoops, and even after doing so, there will still lots of barriers. Adoption Reunion was not even a possibility that adoptive or birth parents could conceive of in earlier times.
Milestones and Transitions: Concerned about Covid-19 - Milestones and Transitions. Are you facing challenges to your mental health?
Are you overwhelmed with worries about money, your job, your kids, your parents? Everyone is experiencing CHANGE and most people are experiencing some degree of STRESS as we face the new reality of Covid-19 in our lives. Many are still under ‘Stay at Home’ orders; many are not able to visit with parents, grandparents, children and friends. Did a friend or relative die and you were not able to have or attend a funeral for him or her? As our communities are beginning to open up, we are facing new worries.
At Milestones & Transitions, we are three experienced social workers able to offer you support. Our services may be covered in part by your employee benefit plan or extended health care coverage. We can work with you wherever you are by videoconferencing using Zoom or other platforms. Marriage Preparation Program. Personalized program with private sessions for people considering or planning marriage or long-term commitment.
Online programs with some individual consultation also offered. For those entering a first marriage or a second or subsequent one, we offer education and tools for recognizing differences and finding common ground. We recognize the challenges of incorporating children and their other parent and extended family into the new family.
Our Program also addresses the issues that may arise as adult children adjust to or do not agree with or support their parent’s decision to enter a new relationship. What is the benefit of premarital counselling? Premarital counseling helps partners improve their ability to communicate, set realistic expectations for marriage and develop conflict-resolution skills. Merging Two Families is Incredibly Difficult When people get married, they envision all the love and romance that they’ll share together as a happily wedded couple. Milestones and Transitions. Milestones and Transitions: Adoption Services. Genealogical websites like ancestry.com and 23andme.com have transformed the Adoption world.
Years ago, an adopted person wanting to access his or her original birth records and social history information, had to jump through many hoops, and even after doing so, there will still lots of barriers. Adoption Reunion was not even a possibility that adoptive or birth parents could conceive of in earlier times. From the 1940’s through the 1980’s in North America [and in other parts of the world, too], typically governments formed even more layers of government institutions and administrivia to ‘help’ adult adoptees and named birth parents [this left out an awful lot of birth fathers who had never been named on birth certificates] access both non-identifying and sometimes identifying information. In many instances, the parties were able to put vetoes on their information being released and some governments instituted stiff fines and even jail time for contravening a veto. Talk about punitive!
Covid 19 - Milestones and Transitions. Milestones and Transitions. Adoption Homestudies, Consultation, Post Placement Supervision and Support, Services to Birth Parents, Consultation with respect to Older Child Adoption, Concerns and Issues regarding ongoing Openness, and Considerations and Support in relation to Adoption Reunion.
Adoption consists of joy and pain, loss and gain. Adopted kids, no matter how they come to us, have been traumatized. Uprooted from everything and everyone they knew. Brought to a different place, with a different culture, sometimes a different language, and different expectations, and placed permanently with a family that they just met. And that’s not including whatever their personal history has been up to that point, and the possible pain from that. – Marissa Ruper, Adoptive Parent. Specialized Parenting Programs. Families created through Reproductive Technologies [Embryo Transfer, Sperm or Egg Donation, Gestational Carrier, Surrogacy], Same-Sex Families, and Blended Families require careful and considered thought.
These families are created with the assistance of another person(s). We will ask the questions to help you consider everyone’s needs. We know that children have questions about their origins and we have seen, primarily through our Adoption experiences, that secrecy never serves the child and family well. We will encourage you to openly discuss the options of how you become parents, having some clear sense and possibility of contact with the other person who provided you with the means of becoming a parent and helping you and your child[ren] navigate the challenges of being part of your unique family.
Communication and Conflict Program. Services for Seniors Program. Clinical Social Work Services.