Perinatal Death: Grief Support for Families

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:Adequate support for parents whose baby dies requires close listening to the parents themselves, and familiarity with other successful programs of helping parents with grief. Interviews with 24 parents who lost their babies revealed what they found to be supportive or damaging behavior on the part of caregivers. Parents wanted doctors and nurses to acknowledge their feelings of shock, guilt, and grief, to recognize the importance of parents’ memories of the birth and the baby, and to help parents sharpen the reality of the death. Parents’ and hospital staff views of several types of grief support through the postpartum period, during and after hospital discharge, and throughout a subsequent pregnancy and birth, are discussed. (BIRTH 10:1, Spring 1983)

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