WHEN THE BABY IS GONE...: A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE OF BABY LOSS

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2022-11-04

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Aydoğ, Sezin

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The death of a loved one is considered as the most stressful of life events, and the loss of a child is portrayed as the most distressing and long-lasting of all griefs. The present study intends to examine women’s experience of baby loss from a psychoanalytic perspective regarding the issues of femininity, motherhood, and subsequent pregnancy and motherhood experiences. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five women, who had lost their first-born babies due to natural causes within the first year following the baby’s birth. Reflexive thematic analysis approach was utilized, and five main themes were generated from the data. The themes were “motherly grief”: a unique loss that will never fade away, reactions to the baby loss, bereavement in relation to others, coming to terms with the loss: coping strategies, and the effects of the loss on the subsequent pregnancy and motherhood experience. The results of the study were discussed in the light of the literature and clinical implications, and suggestions for future studies were provided.

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Baby Loss, Mourning, Motherhood, Psychoanalysis, Thematic Analysis

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S. Aydoğ, “WHEN THE BABY IS GONE...: A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE OF BABY LOSS,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.