Advice given by health-care professionals to mothers concerning subsequent pregnancy after stillbirth

Ingela Rådestad, Marianne Hutti, Karin Säflund, Erik Onelöv, Regina Wredling

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Abstract

We studied the advice mothers with stillbirths were given concerning a suitable time to become pregnant. A questionnaire was sent in 2001 to mothers with a stillbirth at one of five hospitals in the Stockholm region in Sweden. At three months follow-up, 33 mothers participated and at 12 months 31. The advices varied from waiting one to 12 months. Eleven mothers were advised to trust their own feelings of readiness and six were advised to wait until they had dealt with their grief before becoming pregnant. At one year post-loss, most of the mothers felt that a suitable time for a subsequent pregnancy was as soon as the mother herself wanted. Mothers whose baby had died in utero were given radically different kinds of advice concerning a suitable time for a subsequent pregnancy. The best advice seems to be that the mother should wait until she, herself, feels ready.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1084-1086
Number of pages3
JournalActa Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
Volume89
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2010

Keywords

  • Stillbirth
  • Subsequent pregnancy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Obstetrics and Gynecology

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