[Coping with grief following perinatal death: a multifaceted and natural process].

Coping with grief following perinatal death is a natural process that every individual experiences in his own personal and unique way. Parents go through varying emotions in the months following the death of their baby. Empathic support and understanding, both from the parents' social network and from professional caregivers, have a positive effect on the mourning process.

Coping with termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality in a supportive environment.

Objectives: To study the feelings of parents during and after termination of pregnancy (TOP) for fetal anomalies.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted before TOP, after six weeks and six months after TOP. The study group consisted of 89 couples, treated at our institution between 1994 and 1998, who terminated their pregnancy in the second and third trimester.

Follow-up of pregnancies, infants, and families after multifetal pregnancy reduction.

Objective: To evaluate the course of multifetal pregnancies and also the long-term pediatric and psychosocial follow-up of surviving offspring and their parents after selective reduction.

Design: Follow-up study.

Setting: University hospital and subject's homes.

[Care in stillbirth; mothers' opinion].

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 49 women who had experienced stillbirth in 1987-1989. Only 55% were satisfied with the manner in which the first suspicion had been communicated to them, while 85% were satisfied with the communication at the time of the diagnosis. Opinions about care in the labour ward, while largely positive, indicate that lack of tact from an individual may cloud the entire perception of care.