The loss of an infant through stillbirth, miscarriage, or neonatal death is recognized as a traumatic life event. Predictors of development of complicated grief after prenatal loss include lack of social support, pre-existing relationship difficulties, or absence of surviving children, as well as ambivalent attitudes or heightened perception of the reality of the pregnancy. Risk of complicated ...

OBJECTIVE to assess the evolution of attitudes and practices relating to perinatal loss through an analysis of British midwifery textbooks. DESIGN a literature review of midwifery textbooks, written or edited by midwives, published in the UK after 1902, and a critical analysis of textbooks to determine the ideological and professional standpoints presented to readers. FINDINGS the rhetoric ...

OBJECTIVE To compare multigravid women with and without a history of perinatal loss on state anxiety, pregnancy anxiety, and optimism. DESIGN Comparative descriptive; cross-sectional. SETTING Private obstetric offices in a small northeastern city in the United States. PARTICIPANTS The sample included 160 women who were between 17 and 28 weeks gestation: 96 multigravidas with no history of...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between perinatal losses and mother's long-term mortality and modification by surviving children and attained education. DESIGN A population-based cohort study. SETTING Norwegian national registries. PARTICIPANTS We followed 652 320 mothers with a first delivery from 1967 and completed reproduction before 2003, until 2010 or death. We excluded mothers w...

The goal of our study is to assess the perinatal loss training midwives in Hungary and if they have sufficient knowledge experience support grieving parents. Further investigate occurrence burnout among confirm there a link between involvement grief. Descriptive, quantitative, online questionnaire Hungarian Midwives Union Profession: social media groups (N=146). Date: 2020 October November. Inc...