Handicapped babies: how midwives cope.
Research into families with a handicapped child produces numerous examples of the inadequate ways medical personnel inform parents of their child's condition. In the case of the abnormal neonate, midwives have a part to play in this communicating process; thus helping to lay the foundations for satisfactory adjustment by the parents. This paper suggests that midwives need more appropriate training in this important role.
D003142:Communication; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008880:Midwifery / Q000193:education; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011368:Professional-Family Relations