For professionals
We have been working with parents and health professionals to develop guidelines to help professionals to support parents who have lost one or more babies from a multiple pregnancy. This work developed from a qualitative study undertaken by our group that found that professionals often felt they lacked confidence in this area. You can download a copy of the guidelines using the link below:
Guidelines for professionals supporting parents after loss from a multiple pregnancy
The Butterfly project: supporting parents who have lost a baby from a multiple pregnancy 
We have been involved in research studies where we spoke to parents who have suffered the loss of a baby and to health care professionals to find out what we could do to make things better for parents. One thing parents found difficult was that some staff looking after them did not know what had happened, or forgot that it was a twin or triplet pregnancy. Sometimes parents felt that staff treated the surviving baby (or babies) as if they were from a singleton pregnancy. Many parents told us they would have liked us to continue remembering the twin (or triplet) nature of the pregnancy. We are developing information leaflets, video clips and other resources that might help parents. We are also developing the idea of a butterfly logo. We acknowledge that the original idea for this did not come from us - we understand it may have originated in Australia - but as with all of our research projects, one of our important themes is to promote good practice in all areas of neonatal medicine, regardless of who thought up the idea first!
If you would like to receive a pack of butterly stickers to try in your unit please complete our survey
We welcome your feedback on the guidelines we have produced. We are looking to develop and improve them. Please provide any comments or suggestions by completing the feedback form.
We are currently conducting a survey on professional knowledge and practice related to supporting parents who have lost one or more babies from a multiple pregnancy. Please use the link below to complete the survey:
