RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Becoming a Bereaved Parent JF Departures in Critical Qualitative Research FD University of California Press SP 70 OP 86 DO 10.1525/dcqr.2017.6.4.70 VO 6 IS 4 A1 Kofod, Ester Holte YR 2017 UL http://dcqr.ucpress.edu/content/6/4/70.abstract AB In this essay, I explore the significance of involving personal experiences with loss in my research on parental bereavement. By intersecting autoethnography and findings from a qualitative interview study with bereaved parents following infant loss, I argue that while popular and professional accounts depict normal grief as a transitory state, parental accounts present grief as a continuing and open-ended relationship with the dead child. In acknowledgment of this, I present fragmentary, non-reifying narratives of the continuing realities of becoming a bereaved parent.