Meeting the Needs of Parents Pregnant and Parenting After Perinatal Loss
- Author(s)
- Joann M. O'Leary, Jane Warland
- Format
- Hardback | 254 pages
- Dimensions
- 156 x 234 x 19.05mm | 499g
- Publication date
- 18 Jul 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint
- ROUTLEDGE
- Publication City/Country
- London, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Illustrations note
- 3 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white
- ISBN10
- 1138655066
- ISBN13
- 9781138655065
- Bestsellers rank
- 1,836,823
Despite research which highlights parents' increased anxiety and risk of attachment issues with the pregnancy that follows a perinatal loss, there is often little understanding that bereaved families may need different care in their subsequent pregnancies. This book explores the lived experience of pregnancy and parenting after a perinatal loss.
Meeting the Needs of Parents Pregnant and Parenting After Perinatal Loss develops a helpful framework, which integrates continuing bonds and attachment theories, to support prenatal parenting at each stage of pregnancy. Giving insight into how a parent's world view of a pregnancy may have changed following a loss, readers are provided with tools to assist parents on their journey. The book discusses each stage of a pregnancy, as well as labor and the postpartum period, before examining subjects such as multi-fetal pregnancies, reluctant terminations, use of support groups, and the experiences of fathers and other children in the family. The chapters include up-to-date research findings, vignettes from parents reflecting on their own experiences and recommendations for practice.
Written for researchers, students and professionals from a range of health, social welfare and early years education backgrounds, this text outlines what we know about supporting bereaved families encountering the challenges of a subsequent pregnancy.