Adoption: A wise couple’s choice
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Dr Ashwini Sirapanasetty
Contd from previous issue
Miscarriage &Loss- A Reproductive Trauma
Miscarriage is a traumatic loss, not only of the pregnancy, but of a woman’s sense of self and her hopes and dreams of the future. She give up on her ‘reproductive story,’ and it needs to be grieved.”A woman who has a miscarriage is at risk for depression and anxiety symptoms in subsequent years.
In addition, even after having a healthy child, women who miscarry have a higher risk of postpartum depression.For example, mothers who had delivered a child within 19 months after a perinatal loss. When the child was a year old, the researchers assessed the mother-child attachment relationships and found that 45 percent of the infants had disorganized attachments to their mothers (Infant Mental Health Journal).
A 2011 study also found evidence of disorganized attachment behaviour in infants born subsequent to stillbirth (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry).
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Contd from previous issue
Miscarriage &Loss- A Reproductive Trauma
Miscarriage is a traumatic loss, not only of the pregnancy, but of a woman’s sense of self and her hopes and dreams of the future. She give up on her ‘reproductive story,’ and it needs to be grieved.”A woman who has a miscarriage is at risk for depression and anxiety symptoms in subsequent years.
In addition, even after having a healthy child, women who miscarry have a higher risk of postpartum depression.For example, mothers who had delivered a child within 19 months after a perinatal loss. When the child was a year old, the researchers assessed the mother-child attachment relationships and found that 45 percent of the infants had disorganized attachments to their mothers (Infant Mental Health Journal).
A 2011 study also found evidence of disorganized attachment behaviour in infants born subsequent to stillbirth (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry).
(To be contd)