Trying to conceive: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of couples' experiences of pregnancy after stillbirth.

Objective: Stillbirth affects 1:200 pregnancies in high income countries. Most women are pregnant again within 12 months. Little is known about how couples negotiate a subsequent pregnancy.

Pregnancy after loss during the COVID19 pandemic.

Background: Rapid changes to how maternity health care is delivered has occurred in many countries across the globe in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Maternity care provisions have been challenged attempting to balance the needs and safety of pregnant women and their care providers. Women experiencing a pregnancy after loss (PAL) during these times face particularly difficult circumstances.

Therapeutic educational support for families pregnant after loss (PAL): A continued bond/attachment perspective.

Pregnancy following the loss of a baby is a complex journey that often requires supportive intervention to support attachment to a baby that follows. This article offers guidance in supporting parents during their pregnancy that follows a perinatal loss. Content is based on using the continued bond/attachment theories in a therapeutic educational group setting and in individual therapy sessions in clinical practice.

Always with me: understanding experiences of bereaved children whose baby sibling died.

An arts-based qualitative method was used to explore the experiences of children's bereavement after a baby sibling's death, in the context of their family and school life. Data were collected during in-depth interviews with 9 bereaved children and 5 parents from 4 Canadian families and analyzed. A central process, evolving sibling relationship over the years, and a pattern of vulnerability/resilience, ran through all four themes, which reflected ideas of connection, impact of parental grief, disenfranchisement and growth.

Untold stories of infant loss: the importance of contact with the baby for bereaved parents.

This article presents secondary analysis of data from parents who, 50 to 70 years ago, birthed stillborn babies or babies with lethal anomalies and from adult children born after these losses. The stories reflect a time in history when parents were "protected" from seeing or holding their babies and mothers were unable to attend the funeral. There was no understanding by society or caregivers for parents' need to process the loss or resources to build memories.

Prenatal parenthood.

In this article, we discuss the intuitive knowledge mothers have of their unborn baby. We propose a shift in focus from caregivers' merely providing information to first listening to pregnant mothers as they share their intuitive knowledge of their baby. This approach enables mothers and fathers or partners to know they are already parents to their unborn baby and empowers them to get in touch with their baby's presence and who he or she is during pregnancy.

Bereaved parents' perception of the grandparents' reactions to perinatal loss and the pregnancy that follows.

This article presents bereaved parents' perceptions of their parents' (the grandparents) reactions at the time of loss and in the pregnancy that follows. Data originated from two phenomenological studies conducted to understand bereaved parents' experiences during their loss and subsequent pregnancy. However, this article reports a secondary thematic analysis focused on bereaved parents perceptions of the grandparents' support (or lack of) at the time of loss and during the pregnancy following loss.

Born after infant loss: the experiences of subsequent children.

Objective: to gain an in-depth understanding of subsequent children's experiences of being born into and raised in a family following an infant death.

Design: an exploratory qualitative study.

Setting: semi-structured interview in the participants' homes.

Parenting paradox: parenting after infant loss.

Objective: to gain an in-depth understanding of the parenting experiences of bereaved parents in the years following an infant death.

Design: an exploratory qualitative study.

Setting: semi-structured interview in the participants' homes.

Fathers' perspectives during pregnancy, postperinatal loss.

Objective: To present information about the father's perspective during the experience of a pregnancy following perinatal loss.

Design: Descriptive phenomenology.

Setting: Interviews were done in a venue chosen by fathers (home, clinic).