How to Cope With Pregnancy Loss

How to Cope with Pregnancy Loss is a compassionate, clinically informed guide to the many ways pregnancies can end too soon, and to living with what follows. Drawing on twenty years’ experience as a psychotherapist specialising in reproductive loss, it uses a clear question-and-answer format and vivid clinical vignettes to think through common concerns, navigate complex feelings, and understand the impact on relationships and everyday life.Built on clinical principles and on lived experiences of parents who have gone through pregnancy loss, the book highlights the emotional and psychological impact of loss, including complex grief and mental health consequences, and gives advice on how to find support and navigate the emotional aftermath. Throughout, the author emphasises that all responses to loss are valid, that language matters profoundly, and that remembrance, rather than silence, is both appropriate and healing.This book is for anyone whose life has been affected – emotionally, physically or relationally – by pregnancy loss, and for those who wish to understand and support them, including partners, family and friends, colleagues, employers, and professionals working in healthcare.

Julia Bueno is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and supervisor with twenty years’ experience of supporting women, and couples, after reproductive loss. She has worked for the NHS, charitable organisations and in private practice as a psychotherapist, and facilitated both online and face-to face support groups, and for miscarriage and infertility. She has trained health professionals to understand the potential complexities of the associated losses and grief. She was a Trustee of the Miscarriage Association and now curate their expert practitioner register, and she is a member of their Health Advisory Board. She also has personal experience of pregnancy loss and her first book The Brink of Being – talking about miscarriage (Virago Press) was awarded the British Medical Association’s Popular Medicine Book of the Year in 2021 and was a runner up for the British Psychological Society’s Book of the Year 2021.