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Duke launches group for parents dealing with miscarriage, stillbirth, newborn death

Learn more about this group and others in the region that offer support to parents who have lost a baby or child.

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Sarah Lindenfeld Hall
Duke Medicine has launched a new support group for parents who have lost a baby because of an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth or newborn death.

The free group will meet monthly and indefinitely.

"We have certainly noted that there is a need for this kind of grief support in our community," Kathryn Keicher, who works at the Duke Birthing Center, tells me.

The group meets from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., on the second Thursday of each month. It will meet at a clinic near The Streets at Southpoint in Durham.

For more information if you'd like to attend, contact Keicher at kathryn.keicher@duke.edu. (Full disclosure: Duke Medicine is Go Ask Mom's sponsor).

I learned about the new Duke program after getting an email from a reader who had recently suffered a miscarriage and was having a tough time. Our great Go Ask Mom Facebook fans also shared some other local resources after I posed the question to them.

Here are the local programs they recommended:

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