Watching & worrying: early pregnancy after loss experiences.

Purpose: To describe women's early pregnancy after loss experiences (up to 25 weeks gestation), to document the timing and frequency of their common discomforts and events, and to explore changes in these over time.

Study Design: Longitudinal, qualitative descriptive, and triangulated (data, methods, analyses).

Methods: Qualitative data were collected from 82 women pregnant after a past perinatal loss, who were followed through their 25th week gestation.