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09/09/2002 at 0732 Debby wrote:
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However I personally would question how many women actually have
terminations at this stage even if they are told bubs condition is
fatal.
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Hi Debby,
Where I work there is a small but steady trickle of families who have
made this heartbreaking decision and do terminate at 18-20 weeks based on
USS diagnoses, sometimes conditions that are "incompatable with life" and
other times with major cardiac or other abnormalities. A truly terrible
position to be in and not one that anyone can decide for them or ease for
them once the decision is made.
Even though it's so awful I've not heard any of
them say they wish they hadn't known, or that they wouldn't have an
USS next pregnancy. Of course, we also have the families who choose to
continue the pregnancy knowing the heartbreak ahead of them; I don't know
which is harder.
As this is a tertiary referral hospital we have our fair share of
babies born with abnormalities, purely from my personal observation it
seems to me that the parents and family cope better if they have
an idea of the likely course of events than if the abnormality comes as a
bolt from the blue. For that reason only I have no particular problem with
morphology scans though I prefer to use Mum's dates for maturity.
Monica |
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