Women with (n=27) a history of late pregnancy loss (\_20 weeks) due to congenital anomalies who had completed the subsequent pregnancy with a live-birth were compared with a group of mothers with newborns without such a history (n=29) at 4 and 16 weeks post-partum. The following aspects were assesse
Attachment disturbances in infants born subsequent to perinatal loss: A pilot study
✍ Scribed by Sherryl S. Heller; Charles H. Zeanah
- Book ID
- 101244238
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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✦ Synopsis
Mothers who have lost a baby in the perinatal period may experience relationship disturbances with infants born subsequently. This study involved mothers who had delivered a child within 19 months of losing a baby in the perinatal period. Mothers were assessed 2 months after the loss with a clinical interview. When the child born subsequent to the loss was 12 months old, the mother-child attachment relationship was assessed, and 45% of the infants had disorganized attachments to their mothers. This was significantly higher than the expected rate of 15% disorganized attachments in other middle-class samples. Based on narrative descriptions of the loss experience, measures of mothers' resolution of loss and experience of support were not related to infant attachment. Mothers who accepted more responsibility for their own grief were more likely to have subsequent infants with secure attachments to them.
RESUMEN: Las madres que han perdido a su nin ˜o en el perı ´odo perinatal pueden experimentar subsecuentemente trastornos en la relacio ´n con infantes nacidos posteriormente. Este estudio involucra a madres que han dado a luz un nin ˜o dentro de los 19 meses posteriores al momento en que perdieron su nin ˜o en el perı ´odo perinatal. Las madres fueron evaluadas despue ´s de la pe ´rdida por medio de una entrevista clı ´nica. Cuando el nin ˜o nacindo con posterioridad a la pe ´ridida tenı ´a 12 meses, se evaluo ´la relacio ´n de afectividad entre la madre y el nin ˜o, y 45% de los infantes presentaban una desorganizacio ´n en cuanto a la unio ´n afectiva hacia sus madres. Esto fue significativamente ma ´s alto con relacio ´n al puntaje de 15% esperado en relaciones afectivas desorganizadas en otras muestras de clase media. Con base en las descripciones narrativas de la experiencia de la pe ´ridida, las medidas de las resoluciones de las madres sobre la pe ´rdida y la experiencia de apoyo, no se relacionaban con la unio ´n afectiva del infante. Las madres que aceptaron ma ´s responsabilidad por su propia pena estaban ma ´s propensas a tener subsecuentemente nin ˜os con una afectividad firme hacia ellas.
RE ´SUME
´: Les me res ayant perdu un be ´be ´dans la pe ´riode pe ´rinatale peuvent ensuite faire l'expe ´rience de troubles relationnels avec les be ´be ´s ne ´s plus tard. Cette e ´tude a fait participer des me res ayant accouche d'un enfant dans les 19 mois apre s avoir perdu un be ´be ´dans la pe ´riode pe ´rinatale. Les me res ont e ´te é ´value ´es deux mois apre s la perte avec un entretien clinique. Quand l'enfant ne ´apre s la perte avait 12 mois, la relation d'attachement me `re-enfant a e ´te ´e ´value ´e, et 45% des be ´be ´s avaient des attachements
The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Barbara Danis, Moira Brennan, and Laura Dietz with this project. They also appreciate the comments of Drs. Neil Boris and Julie Larrieu about an earlier version of the manuscript.
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