THE COUPLE – INTERACTING TOGETHER
Noticing the way in which couples interact together in the clinic or surgery can give an insight into how they interact together at home, and so play an important part in the help that can be offered to them. This type of counselling can be carried out by experienced clinicians at the same time as discussions about the advantages and disadvantages of investigations and treatments. Couples need the opportunity to weigh up their chances of a pregnancy so that they can make an informed choice about the direction to take. Sometimes this involves the painful realization of lost hopes and dreams.
On occasions the two individuals appear to have coalesced into one, in such a way that the wanted baby has become an amalgamation of their mutual desires. Their own individual personalities appear to have been lost many months or even years before. Although they must both have their own emotions and feelings about being childless, it can be very difficult for these to be respected by each other, let alone the doctor.
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