PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Sara G. Shields TI - On This Day of Mothers and Sons AID - 10.1370/afm.379 DP - 2005 Jul 01 TA - The Annals of Family Medicine PG - 367--368 VI - 3 IP - 4 4099 - http://www.annfammed.org/content/3/4/367.short 4100 - http://www.annfammed.org/content/3/4/367.full SO - Ann Fam Med2005 Jul 01; 3 AB - Telling a pregnant woman and her family about a fetal demise is one of the greatest challenges for maternity care clinicians. In this essay, the author reflects on such an encounter in her work as a community health center clinician, maternity care teacher, and mother herself.