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0861/2013 - Loss and grief: The experiences of women who terminate a pregnancy.
Perda e luto: Vivências de mulheres que interromperam a gestação por malformação fetal letal.

Author:

• ELENICE BERTANHA CONSONNI - Consonnieb - BOTUCATU, SP - Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu/UNESP - <eleniceconsonni@gmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• Eucia Beatriz Lopes Petean - Petean.E.B.L. - Faculdade de Filosofia Ciencias e Letras de Ribeirão Preto/ USP - <ebpetean@ffclrp.usp.br>

Thematic Area:

Ciências Sociais

Abstract:

This study aimed to investigate the mourning experiences of women who interrupted pregnancies under judicial authorization, due to fetal malformation incompatible with life. The study participants were ten women assisted in the Fetal Medicine Department of Botucatu Clinical Hospital. Data collection was carried out through semi-structured interview forty days after the interruption. The interviews were audio recorded and transcribed in full, with the data analyzedthe thematic content analysis perspective. The results revealed that the mothers sought explanations and meanings for the loss, with religious responses and self-blame being very frequent. The reports were marked by feelings of sadness, longing and sensations of emptiness due to the loss of the child, revealing the need of the mothers to remain attached to it. The mothers continued to be linked to their children; the termination of the pregnancy, although being a choice to minimize the pain of an inevitable loss, did not spare the womenexperiences of great suffering. The study includes subsidies for the discussion and planning of approaches and healthcare for women who interrupt their pregnancy due to lethal fetal malformation, through judicial authorization.

Keywords:

fetal malformationpregnancy terminationgrief

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Consonnieb, Petean.E.B.L.. Loss and grief: The experiences of women who terminate a pregnancy.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2013/Jun). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/loss-and-grief-the-experiences-of-women-who-terminate-a-pregnancy/13158?id=13158



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