Handling heartache during the festive season: When hello means goodbye
How to cope with baby loss during the festive season.
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Nicci Coertze
Jul 24, 20192 min read
Where Angels Fear To Tread
I am a Perinatal Bereavement Doula. Yes, unfortunately working with dead babies is part of my job. I dry broken parents’ tears. I take...
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Nicci Coertze
Jul 17, 20192 min read
THE BABY LOSS CLUB
The loneliest club in the world… The Baby Loss Club is not for the fainthearted. It is a club with non-negotiable terms and lifelong...
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Nicci Coertze
Jan 31, 20198 min read
Supporting Parents during Baby Loss
It was cold in the doctor’s consulting room. Carry* was laying on her back, waiting to hear their baby’s heartbeat. But then she...
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Nicci Coertze
Dec 20, 20183 min read
Did I take up the cause, or did it take up me?
Supporting women during a TOP It’s amazing what happens when I begin to identify myself as a doula to women (it happened again this...
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Nicci Coertze
Jun 4, 20185 min read
There is nothing ordinary about death
Photo by Burst on Pexels.com Just an ordinary Saturday morning. In an ordinary mall. In an ordinary clothing store stall. Trying on quite...
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Nicci Coertze
Apr 17, 20181 min read
Ode to an Angel
I look at your perfect little ears and I hear the songs of angels in the sky I look at your mouth and hear unspoken words about babies...
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Nicci Coertze
Dec 4, 20174 min read
Perinatal Bereavement Workers
Photo by rawpixel.com on Pexels.com My name is Nicci and I am a Bereavement Doula from Pretoria (South Africa), assisting parents with...
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Nicci Coertze
Jan 4, 20173 min read
Saying Goodbye to Baby R
I wrote this in Afrikaans originally but I have translated it for this website: Babies should smell like baby powder and Elizabeth Anne’s...
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Nicci Coertze
Sep 4, 201612 min read
The Two Rooms
Photo by rawpixel.com on Pexels.com Except for different room numbers, the two doors looked identical. If you could have peeked inside,...
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Nicci Coertze
Nov 4, 20159 min read
Beautiful Pain
This was my first official experience as Bereavement Doula and one that I will always keep very close to my heart. I wrote about this in...
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