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1-2 years since pregnancy ended
Interview 34  

Interview 34

Age at Interview: 32
Sex: Male
Background: Interview with man. Pregnancy ended in 2004. No. of children at time of interview: [1]. Occupations: Father - graphic designer, Mother - teacher. Marital status: married. Ethnic background: White British.
Brief outline:His wife's 1st pregnancy: 12-week scan no problems detected. 20-week scan detected several anomalies. Specialist scan identified problems with brain development, later diagnosed as Dandy-Walker malfunction. Amniocentesis ruled out Edwards' syndrome. Specialist cardiac scan detected heart abnormalities. Pregnancy ended by feticide and induction at 22 weeks. Post mortem identified multiple abnormalities. He and his wife are hoping for another baby.


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Feels that the support group was good for his wife but that men seem to find it much more difficult to communicate with each other about their emotions.

 



ARC (Antenatal Results and Choices) hasn't really, ARC's been there mostly for [my wife]. I've used them and used their website to look at other people's experiences, and I've used their newsletters which have been really good to read about other people's experiences and stories and things. [My wife's] used them a lot more than I have because they a very active email group, a women's group, and they send each other messages all the time, about what they are going through what they're feeling like.  

There's also a men's group but it's not very active, there's about 20 people on there and there's about one email every 2 months or something [laughs] because men, we can't put, write down emotional stuff like that very well, you don't get a lot of response. So it's more, it's more been helpful just to know there's people out there, actually its more been helpful to me knowing [my wife's] getting some support outside of me and her immediate family. And the more support she can get from ARC and other groups, the better for her and the better for me really. So she has, she's had support from ARC and she met up with some, some of the other mothers from ARC as well and you know she sees them on a regular basis, and that's really good for her.
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