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Ending a pregnancy for fetal abnormalityArrow
8+ years since pregnancy ended
Interview 09  

Interview 09

Age at Interview: 33
Sex: Female
Background: Pregnancy ended in 1996. No of children 2 + [1]. Ages of other children at interview: 11, 5. Occupations: Mother and Father - employed. Marital status: married. Ethnic background: White British.
Brief outline:Her 2nd pregnancy: 20-week scan found baby had anomalies. Preliminary diagnosis after specialist cardiac scan was that baby had serious heart defects. Pregnancy ended by induction at 24 weeks. Post mortem revealed baby had hypoplastic left heart syndrome and an unbalanced chromosomal translocation (Robertsonian translocation of 13 and 14). Genetic counselling found that mother and her mother are carriers of a chromosomal disorder or translocation of the chromosomes. Since termination she has had another baby.


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She felt she needed another baby to fill the void in her life left by the baby she had lost but her husband was unsure.

 



So just backtracking, to me basically, completely going to pieces, it was basically around the fact that the only way I could see myself really moving forward with the grieving was to get pregnant again. And I know some people say, “Oh, you know, you can't replace a child,” I wasn't replacing it, but I needed to fill that void that I'd got. You know I knew I wanted two children. Always had and, you know, what had happened wasn't going to change that longing to have two children. And then to sort of find out that your husband sort of doesn't know whether he wants to go that way was, was absolute sort of shock. 
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