Stress and grief of a perinatal loss: Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods.

Examines the question of how parents grieve the loss of a child through miscarriage and stillbirth. Stress and grief as relevant variables in studies of perinatal loss; Gender difference in the reactions to perinatal loss; Use of Hill's ABC-X family crisis model; Bonding of fathers and mothers with the baby/fetus during early pregnancy.