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Ending a pregnancy for fetal abnormalityArrow
8+ years since pregnancy ended
Interview 25  

Interview 25

Age at Interview: 45
Sex: Female
Background: Pregnancy ended in 1992. No. of children at time of interview: 2 + [1]. Ages of other children: 9, 7. Occupations: Mother - mother, formerly IT consultant, Father: IT consultant. Marital status: married. Ethnic background: White British.
Brief outline:She has had 3 assisted pregnancies. 1st pregnancy in 1992, first scan was at 20-weeks, detected anomalies. CVS identified cystic fibrosis. Pregnancy ended by induction at 23 weeks. She has had 2 children since the termination.


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Explains how difficult she had found it when an acquaintance approached her in an insensitive way soon after she got home from hospital.

 



I think one that just springs to mind was coming out of hospital and a neighbour ringing up and said, “You had a...” - this was after the termination - “Oh, you had a car seat for that baby, didn't you? I know somebody who needs one. Could they have it?” And this was about, I don't know, the day after I came out of hospital. And I swallowed hard and just said, “I don't think so” [laughs]. And she had no idea, I do know she had no idea that it was an insensitive comment, just no idea, just wasn't thinking. And I thought, 'Oh well, that's her problem,' and I thought, 'Why should I make it worse for her?' 
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