The experience of stillbirth and other losses in pregnancy at what is usually a time
of great joy is tragic for everyone involved, including midwifery professionals. Along
with the family, the midwife is thrown into this crisis, sharing in their sense of loss.
Elaborately, fetal death means death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its
mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy and
which is not an induced termination of pregnancy. Based on all these, Kubler Ross' the
Grief Response" is utilized as this study's primary theoretical framework as this will
allow better understanding of the phenomenon. Since many midwives may feel
unprepared and inexperienced in this complex level of midwifery care regard
previous midwifery experience, this study therefore, primarily aims to explore and
understand the lived experiences of midwives regarding the delivery of care for mothers
following a stillbirth. The researchers delimit their scope to exploring the midwives'
lived experiences of delivery of care for mothers followinga stillbirth. As a subsidiary
goal, this intends to examine how such experience influence them as professional
midwives. As part of limitations, the study only covers midwives whose stillbirth
experience is just their first time regardless of the length of midwifery professional
experience. This allows the researchers to have a better understanding on how midwife informants describe this explicitly challenging event in their professional lives. Data will
be gathered using semi-structured interviews captured through an audio and yideo
recorder device. Each interview will last for approximately 30 minutes. To gain a better
understanding on the phenomenon of midwives' experiences of their first stillbirth, a
qualitative methodology was used in the study. Qualitative methods are the most
appropriate on the study because of the limited empirical knowledge base regarding how
midwives experience and deal with their first stillbirth. Research can be done in a wide
variety of locales in health care facilities. The study's focus is the exploration of the how they deal with such experience (3) regardless of their length of professional
sample and the objectives of the study.