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By the way knowledge: Grandparents, stillbirth and neonatal death

Murphy, Samantha, Jones, Kerry Sian·2014·Human Fertility
DOI 10.3109/14647273.2014.930190
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Over the past 50 years, academic interest in the experiences of parents who lose a baby to stillbirth or neonatal death has grown. Stillbirth is defined in the UK as the death of a baby after 24 weeks' gestation and neonatal death is death within the first 4 weeks of life. Less is known about the experience of grandparents after such an event. As grandparents might expect to play an important role in their putative grandchild's life, including the provision of childcare to support parental employment, it seems likely that the baby's death will impact upon them. We argue that existing academic knowledge of grandparents' experiences of reproductive loss is 'by the way' knowledge, garnered incidentally from other research projects, for example, losing a grandchild per se or where researchers have interviewed grandparents as part of wider family research. The experience of grandparents who lose a grandchild at or around the time of birth should not go unnoticed. Research into their experiences can inform about the place in the family, if any, that is afforded to the unborn child before birth and whether, like fathers and the siblings of babies who have died, grandparents are also 'forgotten mourners'.

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  • Loss felt by other family members, such as siblings or grandparents, was generally not acknowledged by people outside the family.

    “Any loss felt by other family members, such as siblings or grandparents, was generally not acknowledged by people outside the family, as other literature in perinatal loss has noted (Murphy & Jones, 2014).”

    From Further Hierarchies of Loss: Tracking Relationality in Pregnancy Loss Experiences (2025) · cites this paper as Murphy & Jones, 2014

  • The finding that higher grief was associated with more acknowledgement from family supports a family-centred approach to providing information and support for loss and grief.

    “In line with research exploring the impact of pregnancy loss and neonatal death on extended family members including siblings and grandparents [97–101], this finding supports a family-centred approach to providing information and support for loss and grief, so that all family members involved in the experience of loss are better able to support one another.”

    From Factors contributing to men’s grief following pregnancy loss and neonatal death: further development of an emerging model in an Australian sample (2021) · cites this paper as [97]

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Authors
Murphy, S., & Jones, K. S.
Affiliations
  • The Open University (GB)
  • University of Exeter (GB)
Corresponding author
Murphy, Samantha
ORCID
Venue
Human Fertility
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2014-07-08
Volume
17
Issue
3
Pages
210-213
ISSN
  • 1464-7273 (ISSN-L)
  • 1742-8149
DOI
10.3109/14647273.2014.930190
OpenAlex
W2138833850
Cited by
21
References
22
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2
FWCI
0.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Human Fertility (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Open Research Online (The Open University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Global Maternal and Child Health
Keywords
grandparents, stillbirth, neonatal death, reproductive losses, bereavement, family bereavement, parental employment
MeSH terms
Family, Female, Grief, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Male, Stillbirth, Perinatal Death

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