Bereavement: Grief and psychological aspects of multiple birth loss

Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation, and Perinatal Outcome

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 862-873

  Pector, E A ^a   Smith Levitin, M ^b  

^a Spectrum Family Medicine   (United States)

^b NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

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