Article: PARENTAL GRIEF OVER A LOST PREGNANCY

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USA TODAY
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February 1, 2006
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MORTALITY

A PREGNANCY LOSS at any point during the nine months following conception can be devastating. Couples have had the dream of becoming parents or providing a sibling for their other children taken from them, at least temporarily. No matter what type of loss a couple endures, they share with other bereaved parents a bond of sorrow as they live through the tragedy and try to cope with their grief, according to Perry-Lynn Moffitt, co-author of A Silent Sorrow: Pregnancy Loss and a lay bereavement counselor with the Pregnancy Loss Support Program of the National Council of Jewish Women, New York section.

More than 80% of pregnancy losses occur in the first trimester. As common as these ...

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