A qualitative study of bereaved parents and healthcare professionals on perinatal loss.

Introduction: Perinatal loss, encompassing stillbirth and neonatal death, can have profound physical and psychological consequences for parents. Effective communication by healthcare professionals during this sensitive period is critical. This study aimed to explore how bereaved parents and professionals experienced verbal and non-verbal communication during perinatal loss.

Challenges and facilitators to perinatal mental healthcare among first-generation migrant women: A qualitative ethnographic study in Flanders, Belgium.

Introduction: Women with a migration background face significant barriers to accessing perinatal mental health support. This study aims to explore the needs, barriers and facilitators regarding perinatal mental health support in women with a first-generation migration background and how they experience support within their own community.

Methods: We conducted qualitative in-depth face-to-face interviews with mothers who gave birth within 12 months preceding the interview, recruited from an Antwerp maternity ward between August and September 2022.

Student midwives' views on maternity care just before their graduation.

Aim: To report a hermeneutic study of student midwives' views on maternity care just before their graduation. background: Woman-centred care, which is the hallmark of midwifery, is taught to midwifery students around the globe. Woman-centred care is advantageous for women at low obstetric risk.

A hermeneutic phenomenological study of Belgian midwives' views on ideal and actual maternity care.

Objective: to explore midwives' views on ideal and actual maternity care.

Design: a qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological study based on the method of van Manen (1997) using individual in-depth interviews to gather data.

Setting: Flanders, Belgium.