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| typical feelings about death |
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Definition
-welcoming
-denial
-bewilderment
-fear: scared to be alone when they die |
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-schock (numbness, anxiety, anger, guilt)
-intense suffering (cyring, pain)
-gradual reawakening of interest in life (humor, pleasure, facing world) |
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Definition
| -grieving before someone actually dies |
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Term
| how to help for someone with death of loved one |
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Definition
-talk
-don't avoid
-be there
-help with chores
-visit
-don't judge
-beware of holidays/special days |
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Term
| when death occurs: before birth |
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Definition
-miscarriage--most 1st pregnancy
-spontaneous abortion
-missed abortion: fetus not expelled from mothers body
-20-25% known pregnancies end in miscarriages |
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Term
| Sudden Infant Death Syndrom (SID) |
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Definition
-2-6 months of age
-back to sleep compaign: babies should sleep on back to not suffocate |
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Definition
-Medical care
-Breastfeed: bottle-fed more likely to die
-Sleep position
-Firm mattress
-No toys, stuffed animals, pillows, or blankets
-Moderate temperature
-E pylori bacteria
-NO SMOKING around the baby |
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Term
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Definition
-when you lose child, you should wait a while before you get pregnant again
-doctors recomend 6 months
-have to let mind recover |
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Term
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Definition
-Strikes both parents at once
-Takes away each partner’s strongest support
-Parents grieve differently
-If there are other children, you have to help them and their grief |
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Term
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Definition
-For about 18 months, don’t understand
-After this, they start to get it—start to understand finality
-Kids can handle funeral homes and things like that if you explain to them what happened |
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Term
| when child themselves are dying |
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Definition
-Important for child to understand as much as possible
-Establish connections with other sick children
-When the child dies |
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Term
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Definition
-loss of identity
-financial status
-change in social activity: easier for widows, more of them and can relate |
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-self-care problems
-loss of intimacy
-feel useless
-mental illness/depression
-very likely to remarry |
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-preparation of the body
-visitation
-funeral
-cremation
-ceremonies of death in all cultures |
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