"Ask PLIDA" is a member-only consultation service designed to guide members in developing competencies in knowledge, practice, communicating, problem solving, decision making, and relationship development. Common topic areas for member questions include

• Policies, protocols, and procedures (e.g., how to apply principles of the teaching/learning theory of Guided Participation)
• What to do or say (e.g., being with, communicating, decision making, offering keepsakes)
• Developing or sustaining perinatal bereavement programs and services
• Developing relationships (e.g., with patients and families, senior leaders, colleagues, other team members, the baby and siblings)
• Maternal death
• Maternal mental health
• Genetics
• Loss in the emergency department
• Caring for children when a baby dies

The response to your question may refer you to an individual, a website, or an article that represent identified best practices in perinatal loss and care. "Ask PLIDA" coordinators from the PLIDA Education Committee respond by email within 10 days.

Disclaimer: The Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance (PLIDA) does not provide medical advice and assumes no legal liability.

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