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Interview 49

Interview 49

Age at Interview: 38
Sex: Female
Background: Children: pregnant with twins. Occupations: Mother- lawyer, Father- teacher. Marital status: living with partner. Ethnic background: White British.

Brief outline:Seven and a half months pregnant with twins conceived by IVF. Would have liked antenatal classes designed for people having a multiple birth. Hospital birth planned. More of this interview can be seen on the Healthtalkonline antenatal screening site as Interview 14.

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There used to be special antenatal classes locally for women expecting twins, but the person running them had left.
Print And I was surprised at the extent to which there isn't really very extensive provision of antenatal classes. Because I had thought that you would go to classes for quite a long time, and that would be your opportunity to meet other mums and things like that, because having, I mean, working full time, I don't know a lot of local people in that kind of way. And I certainly don't know many people who live locally with children. But it seems that quite a lot of antenatal classes don't take place. And they don't have the staff to run them and they've had no specific availability of any antenatal classes about twins, because the person that they had, has gone, is not there anymore who was doing twins. And I think that's a bit of a shame. I think that that does mean that there is more of a gulf for me in terms of it being a medical process, as opposed to something more sort of normal and part of, just part of your life, because there's quite a gap.

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