Clinician’s Themes
Subsequent pregnancies
‘The next pregnancy is fraught with worries and risks and concerns’
Showing emotion
‘It’s different if it’s someone you’ve formed a relationship with’
Support for clinicians
‘There still probably isn’t as much holistic care for our self’
Talking to and supporting families
‘Sometimes I give women hugs’
Training
‘In the first year we had a 3 hour session’
Post-mortems/further investigations
‘Sometimes women go I don’t want him touched’
Partners and extended family
‘I do think we tend to forget the dads’
Clinical care
‘We need to listen to women more’
Facilities available to families
‘You don’t want to feel like you’re being hidden away’
First experiences
‘I’d like to look after a woman in labour having a stillbirth’
Insights and advice
‘Silence can isolate the woman’
Attitudes towards stillbirth
‘Everybody wants to give really good care to these families’