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Tamarin Norwood

@tamarinnorwood.bsky.social
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Writing about landscape and grief. My book THE SONG OF THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD is out now. @LeverhulmeTrust fellow @LboroCA, VRF at @cendeathsociety @OxLifeWriting @UniofOxford. Views my own. About my book: tinyurl.com/indigo-press

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Tamarin Norwood @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
How do parents make meaning after pregnancy and baby loss? Our survey is now open. We'd love to hear from you. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/lboro/surv... Pls share widely. Thank you Sands, Held In Our Hearts, @arcantenatal.bsky.social @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social for supporting this research.
An invitation reading: TAKE PART IN RESEARCH: 

How do parents make meaning after pregnancy and baby loss?

We want to hear from people who have experienced the loss of a pregnancy or baby, for any reason, at any time in the past, and who are over 18 and live in the UK. Our aim is to understand how families make meaning after pregnancy and baby loss, to help improve the support bereaved families receive in the future. 

How can I take part? 
To take part or find out more, click the link or scan the QR code:
bit.ly/43CbQWS
Closing date: 30.09.2025 

Who is doing this research? 
Dr Tamarin Norwood at Loughborough University, with funding from the Leverhulme Trust, in collaboration with support organisations Sands, Held In Our Hearts, and Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC). If you have any questions about the research or taking part, you can email t.g.norwood@lboro.ac.uk
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Tamarin Norwood @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is a very powerful article, which presents some of the unexpected and unintuitive needs associated with pregnancy after loss. Thank you so much for writing this, @neuroanatody.bsky.social and colleagues. Please consider reading and sharing.
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Tamarin Norwood @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is happening online tomorrow! Hope to see you there.
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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
@patriciahealy12.bsky.social @lindabiesty.bsky.social Would be grateful if you could share amongst your networks 🙏💜
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Tamarin Norwood @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I’d love you to join us online next week. We’re getting together to discuss my book and its engagement with wider issues of writing #grief #babyloss #miscarriage #maternity. If you make a donation to reserve a place, proceeds go to baby loss charity Held In Our Hearts: mybodymybookclub.com#nextbook
A promotional flyer for the book club event, with the cover of my book (a white silhouette of a baby in a blue painted circle) and details: Thursday 6 February 18:30-19:30. There’s a photo of me as I’ll be joining in as a “special guest”! (I’m afraid it’s a screenshot from Instagram so it says you can book via link in the book club’s bio, but the booking link is in the main body of my post.)
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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Seems fitting that my first publication of 2025 is a review that honours someone else's important and beautiful work. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Gabriel's gift
Tamarin Norwood is a member of a club nobody wants to join. It is not short of members. UNICEF records around 1·9 million stillbirths annually and 4·0 stillbirths per 1000 births occurred in the UK in 2023, rising to 6·3 for Black mothers. Other club members are people who miscarry (of which I am one), experience ectopic pregnancy, have a molar pregnancy, or have terminations for medical reasons. Prevalence of loss is higher in many low-income countries, and access to pregnancy and baby loss care varies depending on state and country legislation.
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Tamarin Norwood @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
✨new review!✨Very grateful to @petraboynton.bsky.social for her beautiful review of my book in @thelancet.bsky.social. I would love our son’s brief life to make a difference to midwives, doctors and all supporting families grieving #babyloss. thelancet.com/journals/lan... pic.x.com/ftieMq5LmKht...
Screenshot of extracts from The Lancet including the cover of my book The Song of the Whole Wide World (which shows a painting of a baby in white silhouette in a blue watery circle) and the words “*NEW REVIEW* in The Lancet this week: my book The Song of the Whole Wide World”.A screenshot of the first page of Petra Boynton’s review of my book in The Lancet. The review is accessible for free online at the link my postA screenshot of the second page of Petra Boynton’s review of my book in The Lancet. The review is accessible for free online at the link my postA pull-quote extract from the review, which reads “Norwood’s book is a testimony to the power of creative writing in health care. We can read strategies, research papers, toolkits, and guidelines but it is stories like Gabriel’s that help us appreciate how families feel, how staff should respond, and how we can widen our understanding while improving our own practice.”
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Tamarin Norwood @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Anyone else from #palliativecare #publichealth #stillbirth #childloss coming to @NES_Education #NESBereavement2024 Conference tomorrow? We’re presenting new findings on the impacts/limits of *literary* patient accounts in healthcare training, full programme here: www.sad.scot.nhs.uk/conference/
Banner showing the title of our conference paper: “Bereavement Education Conference 2024. Learning Kindness through Literature: prospects and limitations in the UK and Australia”
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CDAS: Centre for Death and Society @cendeathsociety.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
⭐️ The 2025 CDAS Conference call for papers is OPEN!! ⭐️ Theme? Death and transition When? 12-13 June 2025 online Full details via the link below www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
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Emily Tammam @emilytammam.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Reposting this, over here. Please share widely, particularly within the Palliative care and hospice world. @hospiceuk.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/family/paren... (archive.ph/7L5HT)
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I kept my 10-year-old daughter at home after she died – the decision changed everything
Having Neve surrounded by those who loved her until she was buried seemed so simple. Only in hindsight do I see how important it was
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Lorna Fraser @paedpallcare.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Opportunity to come and work with me on @NIHR funded study - senior research fellow , 5 years #childhealth www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/100886-...
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Senior Research Fellow
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Tamarin Norwood @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thank you for sharing! Hope our experiences may make a difference for other families in the future, and reassure healthcare workers how wonderfully their words and actions can transform grief.
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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Ultrasound imaging: A family's perceptions of a baby with terminal prenatal diagnosis @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social 💜 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ultrasound imaging: A family's perceptions of a baby with terminal prenatal diagnosis
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Lauren Crosby Medlicott @laurenmedlicott.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Are you a registered sonographer who has concerns about private clinics that offer early pregnancy scans? I'd love to hear from you (can be anonymous) for an investigation I'm working on. My email is Laurenwc88@gmail.com. Feel free to share. @hcpc.bsky.social @rcm.org.uk @leahhazard.bsky.social
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Tamarin Norwood @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Wonderful to meet you at the House of Lords last week, @drrageshri.bsky.social! Hello on Bluesky 👋
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Tamarin Norwood @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hello Bluesky 👋 I’m a Leverhulme ECR researching the meanings families create in #PregnancyLoss #BabyLoss. My own baby loss memoir is ‘The Song of the Whole Wide World’. Just published: family reflections on ultrasound with lethal prognosis #obgyn #sonography #midwifery www.jmirs.org/article/S193...
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DEFINE_ME
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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Dear followers, If you can help... LIKE and REPOST. Many thanks! #PalliativeCare #HAPM #HPM #HAPC #Hospice
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Conversations in Fetal Medicine @fetalmedcast.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Really excited to be working on the next season of Conversations in Fetal Medicine … coming soon! Please let us know if there’s someone you’d like to hear on the podcast. Here’s the back catalogue in the meantime. conversationsinfetalmed.buzzsprout.com
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Conversations in Fetal Medicine
Conversations in Fetal Medicine aims to replicate those coffee room conversations with mentors or trainers. It hopefully sits alongside all the fabulous educational materials out there, as sometimes w...
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Emily Tammam @emilytammam.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Today is Neve's 12th birthday. I am marking it with two posts. The first contains a painting and some words. emilytammam.substack.com/p/marking-a-... The second is a list of links. Some are thought-provoking, some are resonant and others made me smile. emilytammam.substack.com/p/a-list ♥️
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Marking a 12th birthday
Today marks another birthday; another one without the proprietrix of the day.
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