Annette LeBel This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. www.mileseddy.com

   www.mileseddy.com/radio/perina - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/25/2008   Last Visited: 5/25/2008

   I spoke with representatives Annette LeBel, registered nurse and the Perinatal Loss Coordinator at the University of Colorado Hospital, and Nancy English, PhD, RN, and the Palliative Care Nurse at The Children's Hospital.

2. 2. Western Skies - Perinatal Hospice - September 29, 2005

   westernskies.krcc.org/transcri - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/29/2005   Last Visited: 4/5/2006

   But every year, thousands of families find themselves in situations like Janel's, says Registered Nurse Annette LeBel, the Perinatal Loss Coordinator at the University of Colorado Hospital in Denver.
   
   ANNETTE LeBEL: There's tremendous need.Families will come in and get a diagnosis and they have few options and one is to terminate or to carry the baby to term, and if they carry the baby to term there's no support in-between the diagnosis and the delivery.And they have no idea what's going to happen at delivery.And what this will do is help with anticipatory grieving and support through the rest of their pregnancy and make a plan for the actual birth, delivery, and death of their baby.
   
   EDDY: Annette, along with Nancy English, the palliative care nurse at the Children's Hospital in Denver, are team members from the Fetal Concerns Program.

3. 3. www.denverpost.com

   www.denverpost.com/ci_5624284 - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/8/2007   Last Visited: 4/9/2007

   Annette LeBel, a labor- and-delivery nurse at University of Colorado Hospital, decided to take a course in bereavement to help parents cope after problem births."There is nothing I could do - I have no control over what has happened to them," she said of the parents."The only thing I can do is provide a positive experience."So she started keeping names and phone numbers and, largely on her own, calling to check on parents who had lost a baby.
   ...
   When LeBel went to work as a labor and delivery nurse at the hospital in 1988, staff often were no more prepared than parents when something went wrong.
   
   "I decided I needed to do something, so I took a course in bereavement services," LeBel said.
   
   She started keeping names and phone numbers and, largely on her own, calling to check on parents who had lost a baby.
   
   By 1992, she had started a computer database of families, and out of that grew CU's Fetal Concerns.
   
   The program team includes social workers, clergy, a pediatric palliative-care nurse, obstetricians, doctors who treat very sick babies and hospice workers.
   
   "I'm a labor-and-delivery nurse," LeBel said.