Should parents and families of stillborn babies be encouraged to see, hold, and have funerals for the babies?

摘要

The stillbirth of babies has been found to cause profound and lifelong grief among parents. In the past, medical professionals commonly removed the stillborn baby very quickly after birth, attempting to "protect" the parents from experiencing grief and bonding with the deceased babies. Stillbirth and miscarriages often were "invisible to society" (Capitulo, 2005, p. 2).