What changes with parental mourning law, approved by Lula?

“The way we take care of patients can cause terrible damage in some cases, even greater than the experience of baby’s death. You need to have an approach to what is said and done, validating the mother’s experience and the baby’s life,” he says.

It gives an example of the importance of spaces reserved for mourned families. “The pain of a family that is living farewell alongside one that is celebrating the arrival is absurd. But it is very common that in maternity hospitals these people are exposed to cries of babies and women breastfeeding on the other side.”

Through Renascer, Juliana is responsible for the mourning outpatient clinic, linked to the Sofia Feldman Hospital in Belo Horizonte. There, women who lose the baby already come out with scheduled appointment at the outpatient clinic. The reception process does not replace psychotherapy, but allows dialogue about lived feelings, explanations of medical conduct, diagnoses and clinical decisions, as well as conversations about the stages of the baby’s mourning process and the life of the baby.

There is also advice for issues such as doing with breast milk, when the lactation process is already established. “Some choose to donate, which is a powerful strategy of resignification,” he says.

“We need to create a physical and organizational structure, but also behavioral care focused on this suffering,” he argues. “And we need to understand that it is precisely because it is a brief life and for the time it has been short that there is a lot to be done.”