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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 8 min
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, 2018
- 3 min
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, 2018
- 5 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2017
- 4 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2016
- 12 min
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, 2015
- 9 min
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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