Our babies[’] count[er story]: A narrative ethnography of a baby loss remembrance walk ritual

Willer, Erin K.; Krebs, Emily; Castaneda, Nivea; Hoyt, Kate Drazner; Droser, Veronica A.; Johnson, Jessica; Hunniecutt, Jeni

doi:10.1080/03637751.2019.1666289

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“…• Discuss intentional memory making 11,68,84 • Provide keepsake items 68,85 • Inquire about aspects of pregnancy and thoughts about their child that they would cherish and/or like to honor 69,86 • Assess cultural or spiritual preferences 25,87,88 Enduring assistance…”

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Tasked for Compassion: Initiating Reproductive Grief Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Grauerholz¹

2022

Newborn

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The experience of parenting a premature or ill infant in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can be overwhelming and traumatic. Parents who have previously endured a reproductive loss may find that an accumulation of escalating distress related to nurturing a neonate while receiving care in intensive care compounded with lingering grief from a prior perinatal loss can overwhelm their capability to cope. The ambiguous nature of perinatal loss and societal disenfranchisement of the grief often results in a prolonged or complicated bereavement trajectory which can inhibit bonding, mental health, and physical wellness. The frequent contact and perinatal conversations between parents and clinicians provide opportunities for essential discussions about emotional vigor, grief, and bereavement. A review of the literature and current research found that initiating conversations and care modalities that facilitate Worden's "tasks of grieving" can foster a necessary healing pattern for bereaved parents. These efforts will theoretically nurture parent-child bonding and promote desirable neonatal outcomes.

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Section: Table 1: Interventions That Foster Acceptance Of Reproductiv...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Tasked for Compassion: Initiating Reproductive Grief Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Grauerholz¹

2022

Newborn

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“…Embodied ethnography in organizational communication draws on diverse theoretical and methodological traditions, including sensory ethnography (Pink, 2015), feminist new materialisms (Grosz, 2018), posthumanism (Barad, 2007), evocative autoethnography (Ellis, 2004), practice theory (Hopwood, 2013), phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty, 1962, and post-qualitative onto-epistemologies (MacLure, 2013). Moreover, organizational communication ethnography overlaps with subfields such as health communication (Willer et al, 2020) and spans interdisciplinary fields, including critical management studies (Beavan, 2019) and education (Hare, 2020). In the following, I briefly explain four strengths of embodied ethnography that make it irreplaceable as an organizational communication methodology.…”

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Revisiting Ethnography in Organizational Communication Studies

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Management Communication Quarterly

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This forum considers recent trends in organizational communication ethnography, a distinctive tradition of qualitative research. Historically, ethnography has been valued for its unique ability to generate nuanced findings that vividly explain how communication is meaningful and consequential for organizational actors. Customarily, ethnographers pursue this ideal through distinctive practices. These include embedding for extended periods in routine organizational settings; generating detailed, descriptive data from their observation of, interaction with, and interviewing of organizational members; preserving those actors' indigenous meanings for their artifacts and

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“…(1) Witnessing panels of bereaved parents share their stories of baby loss, then creating videos in order to fundraise for SOTHP workshop materials (Indiegogo, 2020); (2) Volunteering at a baby loss remembrance walk, where we facilitated a children's drawing project and later analyzed these drawings, resulting in the publication of a children's book about baby loss (Castaneda et al, 2015) and articles for both public and academic audiences about children's remembrance practices Krebs et al, 2015;Willer et al, 2018Willer et al, , 2020;…”

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Mad to the bone: learning outcomes of critical grief pedagogy

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Krebs²,

Castaneda

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Communication Education

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We outline critical grief pedagogy as a Mad feminist response to the silencing of loss that often occurs in academic spaces. This pedagogical framework creates openings for students to "break open the bone" of their own and others' losses, particularly through community-engaged learning and research. Using collaborative autoethnography, in this essay we (a professor and her mentees) explore our experiences working with the Scraps of the Heart Project-a community-based research collective focused on empowering families following the loss of a baby-to understand student learning outcomes that were born from our engagement with critical grief pedagogy. Our collective narratives revealed that these learnings included: gaining compassionate communication skills, embracing and unpacking failure as a method of mourning, becoming empowered and empowering others to share their stories of loss, and building a community of Mad grievers. We put these learning outcomes into conversation with cultural discourses surrounding pedagogical and academic norms. Additionally, we offer insight into how loss and mourning can be invited into the classroom so that students learn to engage grief critically, meaningfully, and Madly-and to learn important communicative skills along the way.

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Our babies[’] count[er story]: A narrative ethnography of a baby loss remembrance walk ritual

Cited by 10 publications

References 44 publications

Tasked for Compassion: Initiating Reproductive Grief Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Tasked for Compassion: Initiating Reproductive Grief Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Revisiting Ethnography in Organizational Communication Studies

Mad to the bone: learning outcomes of critical grief pedagogy

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