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Ending an affected pregnancy

Interview AN40

Interview AN40

Age at Interview: 38
Background: Children: First pregnancy ended at 17 weeks. 1 child aged 11 months, Occupation: Mother - Job Centre Admin Officer, Father - Job Centre Executive Officer, Marital status: Married.

Brief outline:Down's syndrome detected by amniocentesis in first pregnancy. Couple decided to end the pregnancy. Baby son born since.

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In her next pregnancy she wanted to know for certain if anything was wrong, so she had amniocentesis again.
Print I mean I know I'm probably a bit sort of sceptical, but because I just think now, “Well, nothing's, I can't leave anything to chance.” Because I did nearly and it proves, you know, that it can happen. So I was just being realistic really. I just thought, “No, I've got to have more sort of reassurance that everything's okay.” So I did think that I would probably want to have an amnio as well, even though not everybody does after having that result. They're quite happy with that. And maybe if I'd have had that the first time then I may have been, you know, but obviously I didn't. So you felt that you had to pursue? Yeah, like a double sort of reassurance, even though, you know, again I had to weigh up the pros and cons of miscarriage again, especially after having an amnio already in that year.

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