{"id":209230,"date":"2025-12-29T08:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/209230\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T08:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:01:07","slug":"christmas-comfort-for-sands-utd-footballers-united-by-baby-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/209230\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas comfort for Sands Utd footballers united by baby loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Kizis-Stevens said it was important for anyone who had suffered a similar bereavement to try to seek help from family, friends or specialist groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the unexpected loss of their baby had been harrowing and led him to contact the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Charity (Sands) to set up a local football team to give men more opportunities to talk about their bereavement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The reality is there&#8217;s quite limited support for men, particularly around baby loss,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s plenty of men who could come to the football, but just don&#8217;t know it&#8217;s out there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There needs to be an understanding that men do grieve differently to women and need a different kind of support.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Kizis-Stevens said it was important for anyone who had suffered a similar bereavement to try to seek&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-209230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}