Hospital to Home information for families

We recognise that the loss of your baby or young infant is one of the most devastating experiences any family will go through, and how incredibly overwhelming you may be feeling on returning home without your little one. Hospital to Home is here to ensure that no family falls through the gap and goes without bereavement support once you are home.

What Is Hospital to Home?

Hospital to Home support, provides face to face compassionate, bespoke and targeted bereavement support, with the key aim of supporting and ‘holding’ your family through these early days and weeks following your loss; providing both emotional and practical support tailored to your individual family’s journey.

Support can include assistance with planning funeral/memorial arrangements, help to prepare for and attend follow up hospital appointments, provision of information on grief to you and extended family, advice and support around returning to work, help to talk to siblings and the provision of books for home and school.

This support is available for any family who has experienced a loss after 12 weeks and up to preschool age, and we offer 6-8 sessions with your family in your home. Thereafter we can refer onwards to our longer-term Peer Support or Counselling Service, as appropriate. There is no end to our care and compassion, and we will journey with you at the pace that feels right for you and your family.

 Our Hospital to Home Workers

Our Hospital to Home support staff are experienced in supporting early stages of grief and understand the shock and trauma you may be feeling. They recognise that everyone’s grief is different, as is the support you will need following such a traumatic time.  Most of our Hospital to Home Workers also have lived experience of baby loss.

Areas We Support

We offer support to families in the following regions:

• Lothians
• Fife
• Forth Valley
• Highlands

Recognising that each family’s needs are unique, we offer various modes of support:

• Home visit
• Phone calls
• Online sessions
• Text communication

Our support is designed to be accessible to all, ensuring you receive the care you need in a manner that suits you best.

How to Access Support

If you believe you could benefit from our Hospital to Home service, please reach out to us.

• Email: referrals@heldinourhearts.org.uk
• Phone: 0131-622 6263

Our hope is that no one is alone after the loss of their precious baby