["Disruptive births" and Father representation.]
Insights
Fathers
Area of Science:
- Perinatal Psychology
- Neonatal Care
- Family Studies
Context:
- Examines paternal representations following disruptive births.
- Considers diverse parental experiences in medicalized births with unavoidable separation.
- Includes 50 families categorized by neonatal characteristics (e.g., premature birth, artificial insemination).
Purpose:
- To explore the evolution of father representations after disruptive births.
- To understand the father's role and support in the maternal psyche during the perinatal period.
- To introduce an additional clinical perspective beyond the child's somatic state in mother-child relationship evolution.
Summary:
- This study analyzes fathers' experiences and evolving representations after disruptive births.
- It highlights the father's potential to support the maternal psyche when adequately assisted.
- Data collected from 1990-1994 at Amiens Main Hospital and in families' homes.
Impact:
- Offers insights into paternal roles in neonatal care and perinatal mental health.
- Enriches clinical understanding by incorporating paternal representations in mother-child relationship dynamics.
- Underscores the importance of supporting fathers for improved family well-being post-disruptive birth.
Abstract:
The following reflection deals with Father representations and their evolution after Disruptive births. It is part of a much wider study taking into account the diversity of parents in these medicalized cases in which initial separation is unavoidable. This discontinuous study involves 50 families classified according to the children's neonatal characteristics (very premature birth, premature birth, premature birth with artificial insemination, non-premature birth). The study took place between 1990 and 1994 at Amiens Main Hospital in France (maternity and neonatal departments) in the beginning, and continued in the parent's homes. With its interest in the role of Parental Representations, this study introduces to the medical fields, an additional clinical sense which does not leave to the sole somatic state of the child the burden of the evolution of the mother-child relationship. At this point we discuss solely of the fathers, their trials, and also the resources they can bring to bear in the work of the maternal psyche when they are well supported.
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