The Mourning Response of Parents to the Death of a Newborn Infant

Navigating care after a baby dies: a systematic review of parent experiences with health providers

“…36 Some parents were upset by nurses or aides who offered to bring a baby in for breastfeeding despite the fact that the babies were confined in the NICU and not able to nurse. 37 Next, families in 12 studies complained that doctors and nurses had avoided them or tried not to participate in their care after a perinatal death. One mother recalled that her obstetrician avoided seeing or talking with the family after the day the baby died.…”

Expositions récurrentes aux événements traumatiques: inoculation ou vulnérabilité croissante?

“…Par exemple, Kennell et al (1970) ont trouvé que les mères ayant déjà perdu un nouveau-né ou fait une fausse couche manifestaient plus de réactions de deuil que celles qui n'avaient pas eu cette expérience. Pavlovsky (1972) a, quant à lui, trouvé que le fait d'être endeuillé était associé à une plus grande détresse suite à des brûlures sévères.…”

Parental grief reactions and marital intimacy following infant death

“…Yearning refers to parents' need to relive and rediscuss their baby's short life (Kennell, Slyter, & Klaus, 1970).…”

“…A confiding 14 relationship, in which people can talk intimately about themselves or their problems has been shown to be crucial for good psychological health status in several studies (Brown, Bhrolchain, & Harris, 1975;Costello, 1982;Hames & Waring, 1980;Lowenthal & Haven, 1968;Miller & Ingham, 1976;Roy, 1978Roy, , 1981Salomon & Bromet, 1982 (Miles, 1984 to the sense of guilt. Kennell et al (1970), examined the grief reactions of mothers and the factors that may put parents at risk for pathological grief reactions. They divided the group of eighteen mothers, based on a median split on mourning scores, into a high and a low mourning group.…”

“…Since grieving is time-related and this study did not control for time in the two groups, it is possible that the mothers who were interviewed at 3-weeks had not experienced the same process as those who were interviewed at 5 1/2 months. Cornwell et al (1977) found that the difference in the length and the intensity between the mother's and help bring the mourning process to a more rapid and positive conclusion (Helmrath & steinitz, 1978;Kennell et al, 1970, Laroch et al, 1984 It has been suggested that there is a high incidence of marital breakdown following infant death (Bergman et al, 1969;Cornwell et al, 1977;Fish, 1986;Halpern, 1972) (Benfield et al, 1978), no study has yet systematically examined the effect of a father's age on his expression of grief.…”