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Ending a pregnancy for fetal abnormalityArrow
3-4 years since pregnancy ended
Interview 33  

Interview 33

Age at Interview: 49
Sex: Male
Background: Interview with father. Pregnancy ended in 2001. Occupations: Father - lawyer, Mother - mother/NHS facilitator. Marital status: married. Ethnic background: White South African.
Brief outline:Father of 1 child. His wife (EAP 24) has heart condition and takes warfarin (heparin during pregnancy). 3rd pregnancy: 7-week scan confirmed pregnancy viable. 12 week scan no problems found. Nuchal scan at 13 weeks found baby had shortened femur, no tibia or fibular on right leg. Specialist scans confirmed diagnosis of 'lower limb deficiencies'. Pregnancy ended at 17 weeks by induction.


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Feels that he and his wife supported each other through the termination and that he has accepted her anger and distress about the baby.

 



The termination my role I said before that there were two phases. The one was the 4-week period of making the decision and there it was both of us just having to decide what to do. And but sometimes feeling of being a punch bag, because you know there was a sort of feeling of why is this happening to us and the sort of irrationality 'why me?' that kicks in. And yes to some extent you do become a bit of a punch bag, but in other ways, [what's needed is] just sort of general support of something that we've got to do together. 
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