Melissa Oxlad

Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Adelaide University

Grandparents grieve for their child and their stillborn grandchild, a grief we need to acknowledge. from www.shutterstock.com

August 28, 2019

When a baby is stillborn, grandparents are hit with ‘two lots of grief’. Here’s how we can help

Jane Lockton, University of Adelaide; Clemence Due, University of Adelaide, and Melissa Oxlad, University of Adelaide

The world’s first study of how grandmothers experience the death of their stillborn grandchild exposes a unique kind of grief. But there are many ways we can support them.

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