About Us
About Us
Petals (Pregnancy Expectations Trauma and Loss Society) provides a specialised counselling service at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, Queen Charlottes and St Mary’s Hospitals in London, the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and Ipswich Hospital.
Petals was set up as a charity in 2011 by a group of healthcare professionals working in maternity care, alongside women who had experienced first-hand the loss of a baby, or trauma during birth.
We agreed that the purpose of Petals would be to:
Fund a specialist counselling service for parents affected by any of the following:
• Still birth
• Neonatal death
• Trauma/depression following delivery
• Diagnosis of fetal anomalies
• Antenatal anxiety/depression
• Miscarriage
• IVF anxiety
• Fear of pregnancy/birth
Raise awareness, through marketing, research and training, of the need for psychological care for parents who suffer emotional distress in pregnancy and birth
