Root Causes
Stillbirth often occurs without control neither doctors nor mothers control its something that happens without an individual control . Many including i believe there is more that needs to be done for this issue . If this affects a gender role than it should be taken much more seriously and research should be continued .Stillbirth is a social issue for many reasons ; women being the only to have a stillbirth is a huge reason . Stillbirth affects not only a woman's body and her child's body but her beliefs and intellectual emotions . This issue can be extended into a religious issue . Having to go through the suffering of losing a child can cause a women to believe many different aspects Often people base their lives on religious views . Which is completely fine religion is never a bad thing in my eyes but can cause depression for a women and lead them to believe they were meant to lose their child . After losing a child who's really in their right state of mind ? it saddens many to think about losing your child but the reality of it is deeply sad . Carrying your baby for months feeling its every move and experiencing the whole pregnancy and it being taken away from you with no support because the world is blind to stillbirth .Losing a baby to stillbirth is painful. Your emotions run from numb to angry to sad and back again. There are a lot of aspects to your emotional recovery from this kind of loss.If you can picture the pain and sorrow of stillbirth you can feel the anger towards the shadow upon those women who dont tell their story because they weren't asked . If you can applaud a women who beat breast cancer you can applaud to a woman who lives through having a stillborn . The loss of an infant through stillbirth is as a traumatic life event. Complicated grief after Stillbirth include lack of social support, pre-existing relationship difficulties, or absence of surviving children, as well as ambivalent attitudes or heightened perception of the reality of the pregnancy. Risk of complicated grief was found to be especially high after termination of a pregnancy due to fetal abnormality. Studies have revealed that men and women show different patterns of grief, potentially exacerbating decline in a relationship. Although it is clear that Stillbirth has a large psychological impact, it is concluded that there is a substantial lack of randomized controlled studies in this field of research.
Kersting, Anette, and Birgit Wagner. "Complicated Grief after Perinatal Loss." Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience. Les Laboratoires Servier, n.d. Web. 11 May 2015.
Bakalar, Nicholas. "New Clues Revealed in Studies of Stillbirth." The New York Times. The New York Times, 09 Jan. 2012. Web. 11 May 2015.
Kersting, Anette, and Birgit Wagner. "Complicated Grief after Perinatal Loss." Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience. Les Laboratoires Servier, n.d. Web. 11 May 2015.
Bakalar, Nicholas. "New Clues Revealed in Studies of Stillbirth." The New York Times. The New York Times, 09 Jan. 2012. Web. 11 May 2015.