Time with Babe

Seeing Fetal Remains after Pregnancy Termination for Impairment

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2288600
AutoresLisa M Mitchell (0000-0002-0599-6543, Department of Anthropology University of Victoria, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume30
Fascículo2
Páginas168-185
Data de publicação2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/maq.12173
PMID25399949
OpenAlexW2468896317
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas38

Some North American hospitals now offer parents the opportunity to see, hold, and photograph fetal remains after pregnancy loss. I explore the social, material, and interpretive strategies mobilized to create this fetal visibility after second trimester-induced abortion for fetal anomaly. My analysis examines both the discursive framing of fetal remains in practice guidelines on pregnancy loss and the responses of a group of Canadian women to being offered "time with babe." I show that while guidelines tend to frame contact with fetal remains as a response to women's desires to see their baby and to feel like mothers, women's experiences of this contact were shaped by more diverse wishes and concerns as well as by specific abortion practices and practitioner comments and actions

Abortion · Fetus · Framing (construction · Geography · Obstetrics · Pregnancy · Second trimester · Visibility · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology