UCC School of Nursing and Midwifery Annual Report 2020

Translating Evidence & Innovation for Health

On 10th November 2020, Dr Margaret Murphy, member of the Maternity, Families, and Primary Care research team, spoke of her experience on this study to the Irish Examiner. Her recently published paper reported on findings from her DN thesis, which explored pregnancy after loss with eight couples pregnant following stillbirth. Margaret also did radio interviews about the study’s findings on Limerick FM and Kildare FM. Men and women approach pregnancy after baby loss differently, UCC study finds

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/ arid-40079411.html

Different Baby, Different Story

Murphy, M., Savage, E., Donoghue, K. O., Leary, J. O., & Leahy-Warren, P. (2020). Trying to conceive: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of couples’ experiences of pregnancy after stillbirth. Women and Birth https://doi.org/10.1016/j. wombi.2020.10.016

Dr Margaret Murphy Maternity, Families and Primary research team member, along with international colleagues from the USA and Australia published a book on pregnancy and parenting after loss. The book Different Baby, Different Story: Pregnancy and Parenting after Loss, published by Rowman and Littlefield and is aimed at parents and based upon the research studies with bereaved parents.

Above: Dr Margaret Murphy.

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