Angel Watch is a community based Perinatal Palliative support program. Staffed by compassionate, specially trained, and qualified medical and grief experts. Our team includes:

• Social Workers
• Chaplin’s
• Nurses

As a service to our communities, Intermountain Health offers this free program to any family, regardless of where in Utah you are planning to deliver. Staffed by trained specialists, Angel Watch provides emotional, social, and practical support during this time of uncertainty.

At every step of your journey, Angel Watch supports you and your family, helping to bring meaning to your experience now and hope for the future. Angel Watch services are personalized to meet your family’s individual needs.

We provide:

• Emotional support Assistance with processing information
• Communicating with Others (family, friends, work etc.)
• Navigating choices Identifying next steps
• Care Team collaboration
• Loss support
• Helping other children
• Coping as a couple
• Creating memories
• Memorial options and planning
• Connection with peer support

Together, you and your Angel Watch providers can create a plan for your pregnancy and beyond — a plan based on your individual needs and the decisions that are best for your family, whatever they may be. Our services may be in the form of home visits, phone calls, referrals to community resources, and written materials. In some cases, participants may choose to meet with others who have faced similar situations.

We can help answer tough questions such as:

• How can I help my other children?
• My partner and I can’t seem to agree on how to proceed, how do we find a way to be united about our decision?
• How can I deal with or prepare for the possible financial burden?
• I’m getting so much advice from family and friends, how can I decide what is right for my family?
• How can I support my wife?
• If my baby lives long enough to come home, what happens then?
• What if my milk comes in?
• How do I plan a memorial service for my unborn baby?
• What will happen after my baby passes away at the hospital?

As you thoughtfully consider your pregnancy circumstances, it may be helpful to know the details of our policy about terminating pregnancy. Intermountain Health facilities or providers do not perform elective abortions. Termination of a pregnancy is rare and can only occur under limited and specific circumstances and according to Intermountain Health policy and Utah law if:

• It is necessary to avert death or serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of major bodily functions of the mother; or
• The pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, and it has been confirmed the event has been properly and completely reported to law enforcement; or
• The fetus has severe fetal defects that will not allow it to survive until or beyond birth, as confirmed by at least two maternal-fetal medicine subspecialists.