Losing a baby during pregnancy, after the delivery or during the first months of life, is a sharp and deep pain for both couples and families. The death of an expected baby is definitely a wound that parents come to live without being prepared and it often happens that they are without help and support from social institutions. The loneliness accompanying the perinatal wound adds pain to pain to persons that are already tried by a so unnatural event, so that it results to be a real taboo subject, about which it is better not to talk. The perinatal death is a hidden event but it is sadly widespread also in Italy: about 20% of all the pregnancies end up with a loss, for a total of approximately 250,000 events per year.
