Article: “Stillbirth Causes a Grief unlike any other”

Many things have changed since December 1986, including public attitudes to stillbirth, as well as the care and sensitivity shown by health care professionals to those who endure such a loss. Campaigners welcome the shift towards greater emotional openness. They say attempts to hush up – or brush aside – such bereavements failed too many distraught parents who felt, as Mrs Murray puts it, “cut adrift” by society, with some friends crossing the road to avoid them.