Guides for Supporting Families

Planning the Days Ahead

The Postpartum Plan for Anticipated Loss is a compassionate planning workbook created by Hawaii’s Nurture Mental Health. This gentle, 12-page workbook is designed to guide parents and families through an unexpected or anticipated loss with dignity, care, and choice. It provides practical prompts and trauma-informed support for:

• Birth & Memory Making: Caring for your baby, choices for holding or viewing, and keeping meaningful memories.

• Physical Recovery & Lactation: What to expect physically, including options for milk suppression or donation.

• Support & Logistics: Hawaiʻi-specific legal information (iēwe care, birth certificates), postpartum healing, and emotional support tools. birth and memory-making; physical recovery and lactation; and support and logistics.

Guiding Conversations

Developed by the University of Utah, Guiding Conversations provides evidence-based information, discussion prompts, and sensitive guidance to help parents and healthcare professionals navigate difficult conversations, decisions, and care around the time of a baby's death or stillbirth.