“…The fusion of anticipated birth with despair because of perinatal loss in a moment in time produces unique grief; perinatal grief is like no other grief (Kelly, 2007; Rowland & Goodnight, 2009). Perinatal grief, however, is not universally recognized (Mammen, 1995) and little is known about low-resource countries with respect to women's perceptions of stillbirth and how they cope with the loss (Haws et al, 2010; Kelley & Rubens, 2010; van der Sijpt, 2010). Perinatal grief is not recognized as an issue by the Indian medical community (Mammen, 1995; Mehta & Verma, 1990)—in one of four highly populated countries where more than half of all known stillbirths occur (Stanton, Lawn, Rahman, Wilczynska-Ketende, & Hill, 2006).…”