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8+ years since pregnancy ended
Interview 01  

Interview 01

Age at Interview: 52
Sex: Female
Background: Pregnancy ended 1993. No of children: 4 + [1]. Ages of other children at interview: 25, 23, 19, 17. Occupations: Mother - speech therapist, Father - TV designer. Ethnic background: White British.
Brief outline:Mother of 4 children. She became pregnant for 5th time in 1993. Amniocentesis detected the baby had Down's syndrome. The pregnancy was ended by induction at 19 weeks.


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She found the loss of her baby difficult to cope many months afterwards and said that going to a local support group meeting was a huge step forward.

 



But I know I met up, again going back to your question about help, after about a year I went to a group which was run not far, which was based with ARC (Antenatal Results and Choice). Just a few people who'd got together who'd all been in a similar situation and we just met together once a month. And I found that very helpful. 

I found, the first time I met up with people from ARC, they had a regional meeting here. I think that was about 10 months after I'd had a termination. And that was a huge step forward for me because I sat in a room with a lot of other people - all of who'd done something along the lines of what I'd done - and they were all lovely people and they were all very upset and very sad. And I was one of them. So it, you know I couldn't feel towards them as I felt towards myself. And that was incredibly helpful, really helpful. 

And going to that, it was after that that I went to the, the group that started after that meeting and I found that really helpful. 
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