WiSSPers Wisconsin Stillbirth Service Program
WiSSPers is the official newsletter of WiSSP. Since the first issue in the Fall of 1993, WiSSPers has been providing relevant articles to nurses, physicians, and counselors who work with parents experiencing stillbirth. Generally, each quarterly issue contains:
  • An In Depth review of a specific topic, by the WiSSP Director
  • Critiques of recently published articles in professional journals (In the Lit)
  • A guest article (Guest Corner) from an expert in the field
  • A review of selected parent resources (From the Lending Library), and
  • A biography of an individual important to our efforts (Personal Portraits)

Both current and back issues of WiSSPers can be accessed below. Listed with each volume is its In Depth and Guest Corner article(s). A listing of articles, books and resource materials reviewed in WiSSPers also is available.

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CURRENT ISSUE:
 
Volume 6 Number 1 and 2 December 1999
Volume 5 Number 4 April 1999
Volume 5 Number 2 and 3 In Depth: A Sixteen Year Retrospective of Stillbirth Assessment
Fall/Winter 1998 Guest Corner: Ten Common Myths About Children and Grief
   

BACK ISSUES:
 
Volume 5 Number 1 In Depth: Case Studies from the Wisconsin Stillbirth Service Program - #1
June 1998 Guest Corner: "Creating Memories," Cynthia Fritz
   
Volume 4 Number 4 In Depth: Jugulolymphatic Obstruction Sequence and Stillbirth
Feb. 1998 Guest Corner: "Yesterday was my son's birthday," Cynthia Fritz
   
Volume 4 Number 3 In Depth: Confined Placental Mosaicism
Nov.1997 Guest Corner: A Burial Option for Babies Who Die Before Birth
   
Volume 4 Number 2 In Depth: Looking for Infection in Stillborn Infants
July 1997 Guest Corner: SHARE, Cathi Lammert RN; Bereavement Services/RTS, Fran Rybarik RN, MPH.
   
Volume 4 Number 1 In Depth: Stillbirth Assessment in the Era of Managed Care
April 1997 Guest Corner: Moving Forward in the Managed Care Environment, Daniel J. Bier, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care
   
Volume 3 Number 4 In Depth: Cocaine, Pregnancy, and Risk of Intrauterine Death
Dec 1996 Guest Corner: An Editorial Perspective, Richard M. Pauli, Director of WiSSP
   
Volume 3 Number 3 In Depth: Chromosomes and Stillbirth: Abnormalities in Stillborns
Oct 1996 Guest Corner: Research into the Causes of Stillbirth, Leslie Biesecker, Researcher at the National Center for Human Genome Research
   
Volume 3 Number 2 In Depth: Chromosomes and Stillbirth: Introduction to Cytogenetics
June 1996 Guest Corner: Pregnancy Following Perinatal Loss: An Intervention Program for Parents, Joann O'Leary, Parent-Infant Specialist
   
Volume 3 Number 1 Guest Corner: Working with the Bereaved Adolescent Mother:
Feb 1996 Challenges, Lessons, and Guidelines, Connie Nykiel, Certified Professional Childbirth Educator for Teen Moms\
   
Volume 2 Number 4 In Depth: Fetal Deaths at Less than 20 Weeks Gestation
Nov 1995 Guest Corner: Diaphragmatic Hernia, Cynthia Curry, Director of Medical Genetics and Prenatal Detection, Valley Children's Hospital, Fresno, CA
   
Volume 2 Number 3 In Depth: Radiologic Assessment of Stillborns
July 1995  
   
Volume 2 Number 2 In Depth: Parvovirus B19 and Intrauterine Death
Apr 1995 Guest Corner: Disposition of the Body after Stillbirth, Sue Lendborg, Perinatal Social Worker, Meriter-Park Hospital, Madison, WI
   
Volume 2 Number 1 In Depth: Maceration and the Timing of Intrauterine Death
Jan 1995 Guest Corner: Observing A Grief: A Religious Response, Fr. Razz Waff, Director of Pastoral Care, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Racine, WI
   
Volume 1 Number 4 In Depth: Disruptions and Stillbirth
Oct 1994 Guest Corner: The Story of a Perinatal Mortality Counseling Program, Kenneth R. Kellner, Professor of Maternal/Fetal Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL
   
Volume 1 Number 3 In Depth: Twinning and Intrauterine Death
Spring 1994 Guest Corner:The Emotional Impact of Stillbirth in a Multiple Pregnancy, Jean Kollantai, Co-founder of the Center for Loss in Multiple Birth (CLIMB)
   
Volume 1 Number 2 In Depth: The Umbilical Cord and Stillbirth
Winter '93-94 Guest Corner: Your Part in the Caregiving Equation, Sherokee Ilse, Professional Consultant, Speaker, and Author on bereavement isssues
   
Volume 1 Number 1 In Depth: Fetal-Maternal Hemorrhage and Stillbirth
Fall 1993 In Depth: Lower Mesodermal Defects
  Guest Corner: Tips for Caring for a Stillborn Infant, Bonnie K. Gensch, Bereavement Services/RTS
   

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