{"id":166844,"date":"2025-12-03T23:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/166844\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:44:08","slug":"government-unveils-compassionate-changes-for-parents-of-stillborn-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/166844\/","title":{"rendered":"Government unveils \u2018compassionate\u2019 changes for parents of stillborn children"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cWhet\u016brangitia was created with compassion and cultural safety at its heart. Enabling parents to complete a stillbirth registration through this site will mean they can engage with a process that acknowledges their loss and helps connect them with appropriate services and support,\u201d Doocey said.<\/p>\n
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n
Health NZ will fund the DIA to build the site.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re committed to making sure parents who lose a baby are met with dignity, care and the right support at every step. This change is a simple but meaningful way to reduce harm and show compassion at one of the most difficult times in someone\u2019s life,\u201d Doocey said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLosing a baby is a heartbreaking experience. For too long, families have had no choice but to complete stillbirth registrations through the same online process designed for parents welcoming home a healthy newborn. That\u2019s not good enough, we\u2019ve heard from grieving families that it adds unnecessary pain at an already traumatic and distressing time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Every year in New Zealand, about 700 to 900 families experience perinatal loss and an additional 13,000 to 15,000 families are affected by miscarriage before 20 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhet\u016brangitia was created with compassion and cultural safety at its heart. Enabling parents to complete a stillbirth registration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4500,1061,76551,2082,266,5812,111,43,139,69,1118,3766,15265,2249,108817,108816,11743,1533],"class_list":["post-166844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-changes","tag-children","tag-compassionate","tag-for","tag-government","tag-make","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-parents","tag-registered","tag-soon","tag-stillbirths","tag-stillborn","tag-unveils","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}