Knight by force and wounded, protecting without a shield: A meta-ethnography of men's experiences after an involuntary pregnancy loss.

Objective: To synthesize the available body of qualitative research regarding the experiences of men after an involuntary pregnancy loss.

Design: Noblit and Hare's interpretive meta-ethnography of 13 original qualitative articles was carried out.

Results: After reciprocal and refutational translations, the lines of argument synthesis were developed, together with the metaphor "Knight by force and wounded, protecting without a shield.