| Summary: | There is a paucity of research which explores
women's experience with recurrent early pregnancy loss.
This grounded theory study explored, described, and
explained the basic social psychological process of
recurrent early pregnancy loss.
This grounded theory study included 12 women who
had experienced at least two consecutive early
pregnancy losses. The data were collected by 18
unstructured tape-recorded interviews. Interviews were
analysed using constant comparative analysis. The core
category of the spiraling cycle of hope and loss
emphasized the major behavioural and interactional
variation within the process of recurrent early
pregnancy loss. Six selective categories and their
properties were related to the core category: cautious
celebrating; losing the pregnancy; mourning the loss;
searching and seeking; deciding what next; and hope.
The findings indicated that the experience of recurrent
early pregnancy loss is substantive in nature, and the
women experienced a unique grieving process.
Based on the findings of this study, the
implications for nursing practice, education and
research were identified in order to enable health care providers to formulate an effective therapeutic course
of recovery and care for these women. === Applied Science, Faculty of === Nursing, School of === Graduate
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