Counselling Support

When you learn that there are medical complications with your pregnancy, you may feel...

• shocked
• numb
• scared
• sad
• anxious
• angry
• helpless
• ...or a range of other emotions

Having to make decisions may make these feelings stronger...

Feeling OVERWHELMED? Who can you turn to?

• your partner
• family
• friends
• spiritual supports
• community contacts
• another parent
• a counsellor
• your doctor
• your nurse
• other medical professionals

Counselling provided by trained and experienced social workers is available through the Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic and the Prenatal Genetics Clinic for couples, families and people like yourself.

We can help you with any or all of the following:

• decision-making
• preparing you for the hospital experience
• sharing your news (how, what, to whom, when)
• coping with responses (children, family, friends, co-workers)
• providing information about community services
• counselling; now and in the future

The Calgary Health Region's Pregnancy and Infant Loss Program provides individual and couples counseling to parents who have experienced a miscarriage, medical termination, stillbirth or neonatal death.
In addition, the program also provides the "Healing after a Heartbreaking Choice" support group for families who made the difficult decision to terminate a pregnancy as a result of a poor prenatal diagnosis.
For more information on the program call (403) 944-2274