Life after loss

“Mom” and “dad”: how beautiful these words, full of love and meaning, among the first words we say as children.

Mary Shelley is an ongoing CiaoLapo project that uses books and reading as tools to reflect on perinatal grief, grieving, the pitfalls of the grieving process, but also the resources, …

In 2019, during the long process for the Ashoka fellowship, at the end of a very long morning of interviews, I met the founder of Treedom who told us about …

After a perinatal loss, a new pregnancy is never just a “new pregnancy,” but a complex time filled with conflicting emotions: within us, desire and fear, hope and vigilance, presence …

A very common aspect of grief is that it can make even situations that are usually interesting, enjoyable, and easy for other people to handle feel burdensome and complicated. Holidays …

Sexuality after a perinatal loss is a topic rarely discussed in Italy because, like death, sex is also a taboo. Especially after a perinatal loss.

After a loss—especially a perinatal loss, which is marked by a painful lack of memories—the lives of those who are grieving are filled with a long series of “firsts without”: …

When talking to children it is necessary to lower yourself to their height. We adults, perhaps because of the knees that are no longer too elastic, are a little reluctant …

After a perinatal bereavement, couples face moments of great uncertainty and bewilderment. The death of the expected child is in fact associated with a “temporary” dismantling of the sense of …

We publish with great satisfaction the Interview with Dr. MP Valentina Giuliano, who graduated with us in anthropology with a study on “special mothers”: what they are, who they are, …