title: Pregnancy after perinatal loss: parental reactions and nursing interventions.
abstract: This article summarizes the recent literature on pregnancy after perinatal loss and suggests nursing practice strategies that can be used to assist parents experiencing such a pregnancy. It discusses problems with current theories, models of grief and mourning, and some common myths and applies Peretz's model of types of loss to a pregnancy loss. It describes, too, factors that influence parental response to grief and attachment and nursing interventions that may be appropriate when providing care during a pregnancy that follows perinatal loss.
authors.affiliation: Arizona State University.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Brost
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Kenney
mesh_terms: D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous / Q000523:psychology*; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001601:Bereavement; D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death; D006801:Humans; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing / Q000379:methods; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000523:psychology*; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology