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Come join our free 5-day mini course, Prepared Presence 2025, September 22-26. Each day, you’ll get access to a short video with instructions for a 10-minute activity designed to help make your online presence more welcoming and supportive of loss families.

In this spotlight, we feature Carli Herzog, a Haven-trained bereavement doula in Iowa.

As bereavement doulas, one of the ways we support families is through connecting them to grief-informed care providers, of many kinds! Today’s blog post is part of our ongoing effort at Haven to help you strengthen your resource list – that collection of care providers that you have on hand and ready for the moment a family needs it.

Doulas and other support people may find themselves in situations where a baby is rushed off to surgery immediately or shortly after birth. How can we support families in this situation? Here are five suggestions for you.

In many bereavement cases, we as bereavement doulas (or any kind of support people) can benefit from a consultation with another professional. You may want to ask a neonatologist their general standard of care for a certain type of case, or an experienced bereavement doula how they might handle the family dynamic you’re presented with, or a grief therapist what modalities of therapy might be most useful to someone in your client’s situation.