Too concerned to adjust to the child

Amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling taking are the two most common study, because they are used to diagnose chromosomal abnormalities that cause, such as Down syndrome, who are the main reasons for the birth of children with defects. Although research results are usually favorable, they are preceded by the fear that detect serious genetic disease. Studies have shown that women who have to make a puncture of membranes bubble, trying to keep their feelings to the unborn child, and many do not even consider pregnancy something real until they receive the results of the study. Some do not even report their pregnancy until they know the results of research, which, if done puncture the bubble of membranes can not be obtained before 20 weeks, and even more when a woman can already feel fetal movement.
The advantage of studies of chorionic villi, although this procedure is associated with a slightly higher risk that it can be done at an early stage of pregnancy, long before the child begins to move. "While waiting for the results of research is always difficult given the parents, with increasing gestational age, it carries even more difficult, says Anne Garber, doctor-hygienist. For future parents it is very important to get information before the woman feels fetal movements, before her body has changed dramatically. "
Researchers at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia found that women held a study of chorionic villi, a period of anxiety was shorter than that of women who did puncture the bubble of membranes, probably for the reason that they can see the results quickly. Very significant reason that researchers were interested in the stress levels in these women, the fact is that the state of alert in the early stages of pregnancy is statistically correlated with the complications of pregnancy. In the study of chorionic villi to three months is already a cause for concern disappears, but when used amniocentesis, stress does not decrease until the fifth month of pregnancy, and this, as the researchers point out, the time of greatest risk.
Even for women with highly adaptable, able to cope with various problems, the waiting time can seem unbearable. Corinne Nye, who was 40 years old when she became pregnant for the second time, did not recall that she experienced anxiety before she passed the study did puncture the membranes bubble. "But of course I was worried, she said. I'm sure of it, because after we have received the results of studies, which were good, I had a migraine for three days. "
The ability of women to restrain their emotions is not unlimited. In one study carried out in Sweden, it found that, while women said that they were trying to distance themselves from their future children, not to worry because in the case of poor results, they did not succeed.
One of the women, who claimed that the forced herself not to think about the baby, the researchers admitted that she bought everything you need for the baby, but hid the child's dowry. Others say that, no matter how she tried to deal with their feelings to the child, "somewhere in the depths of the thought of it is always present." In fact, the experiment showed that all women feel an emotional bond with the child, and it was felt that they were smiling as they changed his voice and movement, no matter what they were talking about the conscious away from the child.
"In fact, the researchers said, women often find themselves even more in the power of thoughts about their unborn children simply because they themselves are doing research child" more real "for them.
What if…
"Although I tried not to think of my child, I finally realized that it was useless, remembers Lonnie Hagstrom-Benner, who was watching his child on the screen during the ultrasound examination before she made an early puncture of membranes bubble. When you learn that you are pregnant, you begin to someone whom you can not represent yourself as a mother, mother to see, hear, to whom you can not touch, but it is not clear who is circumscribed reality. Your life begins to revolve around the same period, when you have to finally meet the little stranger. I know that if I lost the baby, it would be terrible for me. You can not protect yourself from loss of sensation. If you love someone, let it exists only in your submission, you will grieve for him. "
Consultants genetics but not engaged in treatment, can recommend a support group or therapist who specialize in abortion or treatment of malformations. "If a woman has previously been diagnosed with fetal abnormalities, the return to the same situation during the next pregnancy is for her return, heavy feelings, says Dr. Garber. If the stress is very strong, it is best to seek professional help, even if their ability to support you during those few weeks, will be known until the results of the studies are limited. "
It is also important not to overestimate the results of prenatal research. "Even under the most favorable circumstances, still in the 3-4 per cent of the possible identification of the child's birth defects, mostly be corrected, she said. Sometimes research results are introduced parents astray without showing deviations from the norm. "
Even knowing that her prenatal studies guarantee the birth of a healthy child, a woman may unwittingly continue to extend the study, and this in itself is an alarm condition. All manipulations, all searches for abnormalities equate pregnancy to disease. "This can lead to what I call the medical terrorism, says Christiane Northrup, MD, a gynecologist from Yarmouth, Maine. A woman passes numerous studies, and the very fact of their performance makes her fear that it is not all right. We tend to think that the study and the most attentive observation of pregnant women can prevent an adverse outcome, but it is not. We should all be aware of this. "
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