Teddy Love Club Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support is an Australian wide support program for bereaved parents who suffer the loss of their baby or babies to miscarriage, stillbirth, termination of pregnancy for foetal abnormality and neonatal death.
The TLC program is the orginal bear giving program in Australia. TLC donates traditional Teddy Bears to bereaved parents, in the hope the bear may help to ease the pain of leaving the hospital with such aching empty arms. We hope to provide parents with the comfort of knowing they are not alone right from the beginning, and offer significant ongoing support & understanding to bereaved parents, their families and their friends.
The TLC program is the original bear giving program in Australia established 26th October 2002 in Adelaide. TLC operates in every state of Australia with the program represented in almost every maternity hospital across the country.
TLC head office is located in South Australia but operates across the whole of Australia also and provides many other support services such as:
Free professional counselling via telephone 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
One on one professional counselling.
Free call 1800 number
Informative TLC Resource Pack
Group support meetings
Home or Hospital Visits (SA only)
Grief & Loss Library
Pregnancy & infant loss resources
An Australia wide newspaper
Online pregnancy & infant loss support groups
Support for parents across Australia through our Parent to Parent Network
"An Angel in the book of life,
wrote down your babies birth,
and whispered
as he closed the book,
too beautiful for this earth"