Hello everyone,

I am a nurse and midwife, and I am completing my PhD in Midwifery. My PhD was on stillbirth, and my data was collected in Nigeria. I realise through my PhD data that grieving a stillbirth and other pregnancy losses are disenfranchised and many women even blame themselves for the losses. The truth is that a pregnancy that is beyond 28 weeks is not supposed to end in stillbirth except if there are obvious genetic anomalies, in which case the woman and her family supposed to have been prepared for this event. What is sad is that even the midwives and health professionals add to the burden of the loss by trivialising the women's aspiration for a live child by making assumptions and magnifying what the woman failed to do right. As a midwife and specialist in perinatal bereavement, I believe I can assist women who have experienced stillbirth or other pregnancy losses by sharing important information about what could be done after a pregnancy loss has occurred. I pray that God will console those who are going through stillbirth and other pregnancy losses.