Pregnancy and Infant Loss

Mission

Our mission is to provide compassionate, coordinated care for families experiencing perinatal loss, ensuring they receive support at every stage. Through education, collaboration and clear communication, we strive to minimize trauma and honor each family's grief to create a community of care where no one faces this experience alone.

Vision

Our vision is to support all families through perinatal loss with holistic, compassionate care to heal mind, body and spirit.

Our Collective Why

Many of us have faced the heartbreak of perinatal loss ourselves or walked alongside someone who has. We know that while loss is deeply personal, no one should go through it alone. We hope to reduce the trauma of these experiences by fostering compassionate care and ensuring that every person feels seen, heard and held through their loss journey. 

Are you experiencing a loss right now?

• If you're experiencing an emergency, go to the closest Emergency Room.
• If you have medical questions to navigate your loss and recovery, please call the Women's and Children's Unit at (406) 444-2208

Do you need emotional support right now?

• Perinatal Mental Health Line: 1-833-TLC-MAMA (852-6262)
• Postpartum Support International (PSI) Helpline: 1-800-944-4773
• Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT): access through either 911 or the non-emergency Sheriff's Department: (406) 457-8866
• Suicide Prevention Hotline: call or text 988

Caring for yourself after a loss

Perinatal Bereavement Booklet- COMING SOON

Supportive resources for you and your family on your grief journey

• Postpartum Support International (PSI)
  • Virtual support groups for loss and pregnancy after loss
• Return to Zero: H.O.P.E.
  • Virtual Support Groups
  • A message to newly bereaved parents
  • Loss directory
• Inviting Abundance
• Dougy Center: resources for siblings
• Early Childhood Collaborative (ECC): hosts local community events for Loss Parents and Families

• Local support groups

  • Rebuilding Roots Pregnancy/Infant Loss Peer Support Group
    • First Tuesday of the month from 7-9 PM at The Loft Yoga Studio
    • Contact Emily at (770) 316-6719
  • Grief Share: Grief Recovery Group
    • Sign up at griefshare.org for a local group

• Books and articles:

  • It's Ok You're Not Ok by Megan Divine
  • An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McKracken
  • What God is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color
  • At A Loss: Finding Your Way After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death by Donna Rothert, PhD
  • Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss by Rachel Lewis
  • Still Standing Magazine: Stories from around the world of writers surviving the aftermath of loss and grief
  • Heaven is For Real by Lynn Vincent and Todd Burpo
  • We Were Gonna Have a Baby, But We Had an Angel Instead by Grief and Pat Schwiebert

• Podcasts:

  • Terrible, Thanks for Asking
  • Love and Loss
  • Mom & Mind Perinatal Mental Health Podcast
• For more book and podcast recommendations, click here

Therapy Providers

• Please contact Terri Temple, RN or Stephanie Bauch, RN (contact information below) for assistance connecting with a therapy provider 
• Rebekah Orr, MS, LCPC
• Kody Ramler, LCSW
• Jamie Anesi, MA, LCPC
• LaReissa Swenson, LCSW
• Ashley Browne, LCSW
• Theresa Lee, LCSW
• Find more counselors on Psychology Today

St. Peter's Health Perinatal Bereavement Staff

• Terri Temple, RN: (406) 459-4981
• Stephanie Bauch, RN: (406) 441-5107 sbauch@sphealth.org

Perinatal Bereavement Team

Back row from left to right: 
Betsey Williams, Women and Children's Unit; Olivia Breining, Helena OB; Terri Temple, Perinatal Bereavement Nurse; Makayla Murgel, Helena OB; Kama Roberts, Women and Children's Unit; Ashley Sterhan, Women and Children's Unit; Stephanie Bauch, Taking Care of You Program; Brittany Kizer, Behavioral Health Professional

Front row from left to right:
Jessica Anderson, Emergency Department; Tiffany Rumsey, Palliative Care; Kim Pepper, Chaplain with Mocha, Facility Dog; Maureen Bjerke, Population Health; Tessa McGree, Nurse Educator

Not pictured:
Amanda Flowers, Behavioral Health; Haylie Wisemiller, Community Health; Lisa McMahon, Women and Children's Unit; Orpha Smigaj, Women and Children's Unit; Amy Emmert; Bobbi Soper; Brittany Hill; Cambryn Coulter; Carli Hill; Emily Sedgwick; Jamie Schrull; Kara Hernandez; Samantha J Kelly; Theresa Huschka