Reconciling the Uniquely Embodied Grief of Perinatal Death: A Narrative Approach

The death of a baby, stillborn or living only briefly after birth, is a moral affront to the cycle of life, leaving parents without the life stories and material objects that traditionally offer comfort to the bereaved, nor—in an increasingly secularized society—a religious framework for making sens...

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Autores principales:	Tamarin Norwood, John Boulton
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	grief bereavement death pregnancy loss secular embodiment Religions. Mythology. Rationalism BL1-2790
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4e80a30ac90f471495c5841cc486d7e12021-11-25T18:53:02ZReconciling the Uniquely Embodied Grief of Perinatal Death: A Narrative Approach10.3390/rel121109762077-1444https://doaj.org/article/4e80a30ac90f471495c5841cc486d7e12021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/11/976https://doaj.org/toc/2077-1444The death of a baby, stillborn or living only briefly after birth, is a moral affront to the cycle of life, leaving parents without the life stories and material objects that traditionally offer comfort to the bereaved, nor—in an increasingly secularized society—a religious framework for making sense of their loss. For the grieving mother, it is also a physical affront, as her body continues to rehearse its part in its symbiotic relationship with a baby whose own body is disintegrating. Attempting to forge continuing bonds with her child after death makes special demands upon the notion of embodied spirituality, as she attempts to make sense of this tragedy in an embodied way. This paper, which reconciles the distinct perspectives of bereaved mothers and children’s doctors, proposes that the thoughtful re-presentation of medical insight into pregnancy and fetal development may assuage parents’ grief by adding precious detail to their baby’s life course, and by offering the mother a material basis to conceptualize her own body as part of the distributed personhood of her baby.Tamarin NorwoodJohn BoultonMDPI AGarticlegriefbereavementdeathpregnancy losssecularembodimentReligions. Mythology. RationalismBL1-2790ENReligions, Vol 12, Iss 976, p 976 (2021)
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description	The death of a baby, stillborn or living only briefly after birth, is a moral affront to the cycle of life, leaving parents without the life stories and material objects that traditionally offer comfort to the bereaved, nor—in an increasingly secularized society—a religious framework for making sense of their loss. For the grieving mother, it is also a physical affront, as her body continues to rehearse its part in its symbiotic relationship with a baby whose own body is disintegrating. Attempting to forge continuing bonds with her child after death makes special demands upon the notion of embodied spirituality, as she attempts to make sense of this tragedy in an embodied way. This paper, which reconciles the distinct perspectives of bereaved mothers and children’s doctors, proposes that the thoughtful re-presentation of medical insight into pregnancy and fetal development may assuage parents’ grief by adding precious detail to their baby’s life course, and by offering the mother a material basis to conceptualize her own body as part of the distributed personhood of her baby.
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Reconciling the Uniquely Embodied Grief of Perinatal Death: A Narrative Approach

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