About MOMS Study

The objective of the MOMS study is to increase our scientific knowledge of stillbirth in order to reduce the numbers worldwide.   MOMS is being conducted by an international group of highly renowned researchers.  Both women who have experienced stillbirths and those who have experienced a live birth are invited to report their experience through an on-line questionnaire.    The study is completely confidential and takes an average of 35 minutes to complete if you have experienced stillbirth, 20 minutes if you are reporting a live birth.  

Stillbirth affects more than 4 million women and their babies worldwide every year resulting in lost lives and overwhelming grief for families. Despite many obstetrical advances, most of the medical community still lacks basic knowledge on the causes, risk factors, and psychosocial effects of this tragedy.    While research on stillbirths is intensifying throughout the Western World, collecting and extrapolating data to study from those who actually experience stillbirth is likely to take many years. It is time to begin to identify clues so that further, more targeted research on stillbirth can provide much needed information. This is the goal of the MOMS study.

Researchers The MOMS database is intended as a source of information for research - not only for the current study-group. For more information on the study design, content of the MOMS-questionnaire, and how to get data from MOMS, please contact the Principal Investigator at j.f.froen@klinmed.uio.no