Perinatal Hospice

Perinatal hospice care exists to help with these challenges. Perinatal hospice care provides comprehensive prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal medical care and support to infants with life-threatening and life-limiting diagnoses, and their families, to improve their quality of life.   Services may include, but are not limited to, helping the parents develop a birth plan, providing counseling, addressing concerns regarding resuscitation and active medical intervention, providing spiritual counseling, and bringing support in navigating social issues such as how to tell friends and family about their diagnosis.  Perinatal hospice care is an extension of established adult and oncologic palliative care models. In short, perinatal hospice provides healing without cure for the patient. While parents grapple with their infant’s life-limiting or life-threatening diagnosis, perinatal hospice can provide a safe place for families to meet their child face to face, hold their child, and demonstrate their love, for however long their child’s life may be.