About Nova Foundation CIC

New star

Nova means new star. A supernova is when two stars come together for a short time to create a light greater then their own.

Nova Foundation’s vision is a world without babyloss. Our mission is to provide trauma informed support for babyloss parents. No bereaved parent should ever feel alone. #togetherthroughbabyloss

Why Nova was formed

Losing a baby is soul destroying, heart breaking and traumatic. It is one of the worst things that can happen to someone. Yet there are no protocols to ensure babyloss parents receive trauma or bereavement support. Our Founder Tara knows this firsthand and set up Nova Foundation in memory of her son to ensure parents receive the comfort and trauma informed support they deserve.

Our beliefs

1.    No parent walks the path of babyloss alone. All parents need a safe, comforting, accepting space to grieve, mourn and rehabilitate to their new normal

2.    Every single family that experiences babyloss receives immediate, ongoing, adaptive, holistic trauma and grief support to enable them to survive the first year of loss

3.    That parents are parents whether they get to hold their child in their arms or not, and that their baby is as important as any other baby

3.    All parents pregnant after a loss should receive trauma informed, appropriate antenatal education so that they feel less anxious and more hopeful about the future.

5.    Babyloss should not be taboo. Parents should feel they can talk about their baby if they want to

How we will support babyloss parents

We will do this by running antenatal classes for parents pregnant after a loss, whose profits will find trauma therapists for babyloss parents. We will provide free, trauma informed resources to help babyloss parents survive the first year of grief while feeling less anxious about the future.

The stats

  • 203,000 families affected by pregnancy loss (miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death) a year in the UK (1 in 4 of all pregnancies)

  • 3,000 families (15 per day) experience stillbirth

  • Sands research has found that 60% of bereaved parents felt they needed specialist support for their mental health

  • UK has the highest rate of stillbirth, and one of the highest infant mortality rates, in Western Europe

  • 32.7% of women that experience stillbirth have full blown Post Traumatic Street Disorder (PTSD)

  • 10% of women who have experienced pregnancy loss are too traumatised to ever return to work

  • 30,000 women a year in the UK experience birth trauma