Candles in the snow: ritual and memory for siblings of infants who died in the intensive care nursery.

Candles in the snow: ritual and memory for siblings of infants who died in the intensive care nursery.

Fanos JH; Little GA; Edwards WH

Journal Of Pediatrics

2009

AIM; IM; sibling bereavement

CONCLUSIONS: Although death in the NICU often has a brief course, consequences for survivor siblings can be life-long. Siblings born both before and after the death of an infant may be at risk and in need of psychological support. Family rituals and photos are important vehicles of communication, grieving, and memory for siblings and parents alike. Clinicians should allow siblings to be active participants in the infant's brief life and death.

2009-06

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