PLIDA Practice Guidelines offer specific recommendations for providing the compassionate care put forth by PLIDA Position Statements.

PLIDA Practice Guidelines are intended to educate and support practitioners in their efforts to provide comprehensive, relationship-based care to grieving families. Use them to increase awareness, educate people, inform policy, sustain supportive programs, improve implementation, or encourage change.

Please print, copy, post, and distribute the pdf files provided (see links below).

Available Practice Guidelines

Offering the Baby to Bereaved Parents

These practice guidelines relate to PLIDA’s Position Statements regarding parents holding their baby and offering the baby to them.

A two-page summary of these guidelines is also available.

When Parents Want to Hold Their Baby

These practice guidelines summarize the guidelines contained in PLIDA’s Position Statements regarding infection risks and postmortem pathology studies.