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“RTS Bereavement Training: Perinatal Death” is a 10-hour online training program that focuses on caring for families experiencing early pregnancy loss, ectopic pregnancy, life-limiting diagnosis, stillbirth and newborn death. Topics include foundational relationship-based concepts and theories, grief and bereavement, communication skills, meaning-making projects, perinatal mental health, self-care and more.
Waiting for a baby strengthens the hope, peace, joy, and love, crafting the manger that holds the baby. This is what Advent offers the church.
Loving God, we gratefully receive your gift of life. Mysterious Spirit, we welcome the new life you are growing in us.
With a warning that this is not an easy text to read or a subject to be taken lightly but a topic that demands the utmost sensitivity and pastoral care … here we go.
There is something unique about female humanity that puts them in solidarity with Christ. The blood of women has life-giving power, so too the blood that poured from Jesus’s side bore new creation.
The grief of remembering what is not,
but could have been.
