Lesson 1: About the Pregnancy Loss Education Training
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The Pregnancy Loss Education Training Course offered by Evelyn James and Company is a comprehensive training designed to equip professionals with the skills, knowledge, and emotional resilience needed to support families experiencing pregnancy loss.
This course provides both practical strategies and emotional tools to offer compassionate, holistic support to grieving families in their most difficult moments.
This course is more than just education; it’s a commitment to providing meaningful care and ongoing support for families as they navigate loss, and to supporting OURSELVES while we provide this incredible care. With reflection questions, personalized feedback, and practical resources, participants leave with the confidence to integrate what they’ve learned into their work immediately.
This course aims to establish a standard of bereavement care across settings, ensuring that families receive the highest level of support, wherever they are.
This course was designed specifically for YOU! We need more caring humans, especially perinatal professionals, knowledgeable in supporting moms/parents who go through the devastating experience of pregnancy loss.
When I completed my postpartum doula training, I felt ready to support families through birth and the postpartum period. But almost exactly four months later, my life changed forever. I gave birth to my daughter, Evelyn, who was stillborn at 40 weeks and 5 days.
In the hours and days that followed, I experienced something that has stayed with me ever since: there is no universal standard for perinatal bereavement care. Some professionals knew exactly how to support me. They were compassionate, present, and deeply understanding of what my family and I were going through. Others simply didn’t know what to do.
This isn’t a criticism of any one provider or hospital. It reflects a much larger issue in the healthcare and birthwork communities, most professionals are never properly trained to support families through pregnancy or infant loss.
And yet loss happens every single day.
The midwives and nurses who knew how to support me were the ones who carried me through that day. Their presence, knowledge, and compassion made an unbearable moment survivable. I truly believe I would not have made it through without them, along with my doula, Kendra. They were my angels that day.
That experience changed the course of my life and my work.
My goal in creating this training is simple:
I want every professional who walks alongside families to feel confident, prepared, and compassionate in the moments that matter most.
Birth work and postpartum care often bring situations that are outside the “expected” path, including loss, grief, trauma, and complex emotional realities. Families deserve to be supported by people who know how to show up with care, clarity, and humanity in those moments.
This training exists to help you become that person.
If you ever need support, clarification, or want to talk through something from the training, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Leila. She is our education coordinator and has been with me since our first founding member launch!
And if you haven’t already, please join our professional community inside the Pregnancy Loss Education Facebook group, where we continue the conversation and support one another in this work.
🔗 https://www.facebook.com/groups/pregnancylosseducation
**PMH-C Continuing Education Opportunity
Already hold the Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C) through Postpartum Support International?
Our Pregnancy Loss Education Training may be submitted toward your PMH-C renewal continuing education hours.
PSI has confirmed that both live and self-paced trainings may be accepted for renewal when the content strengthens a provider’s ability to support mothers, babies, and families. Because this training focuses on pregnancy loss, bereavement, trauma-informed care, and perinatal mental health, it aligns with eligible renewal content.
After completing the training, you will receive a certificate of completion that includes your name, course title, completion date, total training hours, delivery format, and the course provider.
This training is not “PSI approved,” because PSI does not pre-approve individual renewal trainings. Current PMH-C holders may submit their certificate to PSI for continuing education consideration during the renewal process.
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