Authors: Annsofie Adolfsson¹; P. G. Larsson²; Barbro Wijma³; Carina Bertero⁴

Source: Health Care For Women International, Volume 25, Number 6, June/July 2004 , pp. 543-560(18)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

Women who lose an early pregnancy are shocked when they are first given the information that they have miscarried. Later they feel guilt and emptiness. Heideggerian interpretive phenomenology has been used with 13 women from southwest Sweden to uncover their lived experience of miscarriage. Women plan their future with a child during early pregnancy. When miscarriage occurs it is not a gore, an embryo, or a fetus they lose, it is their child. They feel that they are the cause of the miscarriage through something they have done, eaten, or thought. They feel abandonment and they grieve for their profound loss; they are actually in bereavement.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07399330490444821

Affiliations: 1: Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, Karnsjukhuset, Skovde; and Division of Women's Health, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden 2: Division of Women's Health, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden and Division of Obstetrics and Gyneacology, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden 3: Division of Women's Health, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden 4: School of Health Sciences, University of Jonkoping, Jonkoping, Sweden; and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Science, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden

Publication date: 2004-06-01

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