PLIDA has created Position Statements that promote the highest standard of supportive care for bereaved parents.

PLIDA Position Statements advocate for parents’ emotional needs and the provision of compassionate, relationship-based care. Use them to increase awareness, educate people, inform policy, sustain supportive programs, or encourage change. Please print, copy, and distribute.

If you have a suggestion for a topic you would like to see, please email info@plida.org

Available Position Statements
Infection risks are insignificant for bereaved parents who have close contact with their deceased baby’s body.

When bereaved parents hold their baby's body for any length of time after death, there is little or no impact on postmortem pathology studies.

Pending Position Statement Topics
Condition of deceased baby’s body
Approaching grieving parents about holding their baby
Bereavement photographs for parents