A waste of life: Fathers' experience of losing a child before birth

Birth

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 124-130

  Samuelsson, Margaret ^a,d   Rådestad, Ingela ^b   Segesten, Kerstin ^c  

^a North Elvsborgs County Hospital   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^d NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FATHER; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GRIEF; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LABOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE;

ADULT; FATHERS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GRIEF; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES;

EID: 0035379805     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-536X.2001.00124.x     Document Type: Article

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