Pregnancy & Infant Loss - Grief Support

Women's Health Ambulatory Care, Foothills Medical Centre

Provides emotional support, teaching, and treatment for grieving women and their families who have had a pregnancy or infant loss.

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Details/Contact | For Your Appointment | Parking | Finding Us | What to Expect | Patient Resources

Details / Contact

View the following service listing to access a service overview, eligibility criteria, hours of operation, contact information and a street map.

• Pregnancy & Infant Loss - Grief Support

View the following video, services provided by the Pregnancy and Infant Loss – Calgary Zone through the eyes of a family experiencing a loss.

For Your Appointment

• Remember to bring your Alberta Healthcare card and a valid piece of photo ID.

Parking

• Foothills Medical Centre Parking and Wayfinding - view all building and parking maps, including transit information
  • Special Services Building Ambulatory Care Centre

Finding Us

When coming onto the Foothills Medical Campus from the:

East Entrance

Turn on to 29th Street NW and then into the Emergency Entrance. Follow the one-way drive past the Main Entrance to the Special Services Entrance. 

West Entrance

Located just off 16th Ave NW, exit onto West Campus Boulevard and follow Hospital Drive. Continue to Hospital Drive and follow the one-way drive past the Main Entrance to the Special Services Entrance.

Patient Resources

Program Resources

Brochure

• Pregnancy & Infant Loss Program

After Your Loss

Online MyHealthAlberta.ca information and print family guides:

• After Your Miscarriage
• After Your Stillbirth
• After Your Neonatal Loss

Print copies are available to AHS staff through DATAOnline. For more information view the how to order guide

Mementos for Families After a Loss
Our program supplies Calgary and area hospitals with mementos such as memory boxes, baby clothing, and blankets, to help families cherish and remember their baby over time.

Health Information - MyHealth.Alberta.ca

• After Your Stillbirth
• Autopsy
• Grief: Coping with Grief
• Grief: Helping Children With Grief
• Grief: Losing a Loved One
• Grief & Grieving
• Handling Sadness & Yearning After a Major Loss
• Miscarriage
• Prolonged Grief

Videos

• A Parent’s View of Pregnancy & Infant Loss (video series)

For more information visit MyHealth.Alberta.ca.

Groups

Caring Beyond
Offers peer support to parents who have lost a baby due to miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death and termination due to poor prenatal diagnosis. Learn more, visit Caring Beyond.

Memorial Services

Events

• Events of Remembrance (listing of events)

Silent Hopes Memorial Service, AHS
Service to honour the loss of pregnancies 20 weeks' gestation and under. Service is held twice a year (Spring & Fall). 

• Silent Hopes (poster)

Service of Remembrance, AHS
Service to honour pregnancy losses over 20 weeks of gestation. Service is held annually.

• Service of Remembrance (poster)

Additional Resources

• HealGrief^®
  • Signs of Complicated Grief
• Infants Remembered in Silence