Through interviews with eight couples, researchers have described a number of common themes. Deciding to get pregnant following a stillbirth is not undertaken lightly. The couples approached the decision with …
Category: Stillbirth
Fathers must manage their own intense grief after the death of their baby at the same time as supporting the physical and emotional wellbeing of the mother. Some fathers hide …
Following a scoping review of 27 studies of men’s reactions to stillbirth or neonatal death, researchers have found that men and women tend to grieve differently after the death of …
A review of research on stillbirth in low and middle-income countries touches on the important family dimension of grief and support, but makes no practical recommendations for how to respond …
A third recent systematic review of stillbirth research (we have already reported on two of them) focuses on the social consequences of stillbirth. The review covered 144 studies during the …
A second review of research on supporting families after still birth has been published just a month later than the last review on stillbirth that we reported. Though some of …
A review of literature on supporting parents who have experienced a stillbirth – the death of a baby after 20 weeks in utero until immediately before birth – has concluded …
Sands, a not-for-profit bereavement service in Australia, has launched a new helpline run by fathers for fathers who have been affected by miscarriage, stillbirth or newborn death. Sands CEO, Andre …