Section 3: The anticipated changes in family life and relationships How do you expect the baby’s arrival to affect: you? your family life? the other members of your family? family relationships? your relationship with the baby’s father? These are open questions that could bring a range of possibilities including, for example, changes in: daily schedule, physical/mental state or family relationships. If these are not mentioned then probe further, asking: How do you feel about these changes? (If not already indicated) If positive changes are anticipated – reinforce them. If negative changes are anticipated (e.g. conflicts on child rearing practice, jealousy of siblings, lack of support with baby’s care, financial or housing problems, etc.) ask: Have you any solution in mind? If solution is foreseen – reinforce it. If no solution is foreseen – encourage the woman to solve the problem together with her partner/husband and/or with other members of her family by asking: How about discussing the problem with your partner (baby’s father) or with other members of your family/friends? How do you think you will cope with these changes? (If not already indicated) Do you have any worries about how you feel? If there is no one to give support to her, help the woman to think about possible ways of obtaining adequate social or psychological support. Express your readiness to talk again and to offer ongoing support. Section 4: The pregnant woman’s current perceptions and anticipation of her unborn child How is your baby now? The aim of this is to pick up whether the woman has any particular anxieties about the child from the physical point of view. How do you imagine your baby now? What do you think his/her temperament/ personality is like? The aim of these questions is to encourage the woman’s involvement with the infant as a person during pregnancy.
Section 3: The anticipated changes in family life and relationships How do you expect the baby’s arrival to affect: you? your family life? the other members of your family? family relationships? your relationship with the baby’s father? These are open questions that could bring a range of possibilities including, for example, changes in: daily schedule, physical/mental state or family relationships. If these are not mentioned then probe further, asking: How do you feel about these changes? (If not already indicated) If positive changes are anticipated – reinforce them. If negative changes are anticipated (e.g. conflicts on child rearing practice, jealousy of siblings, lack of support with baby’s care, financial or housing problems, etc.) ask: Have you any solution in mind? If solution is foreseen – reinforce it. If no solution is foreseen – encourage the woman to solve the problem together with her partner/husband and/or with other members of her family by asking: How about discussing the problem with your partner (baby’s father) or with other members of your family/friends? How do you think you will cope with these changes? (If not already indicated) Do you have any worries about how you feel? If there is no one to give support to her, help the woman to think about possible ways of obtaining adequate social or psychological support. Express your readiness to talk again and to offer ongoing support. Section 4: The pregnant woman’s current perceptions and anticipation of her unborn child How is your baby now? The aim of this is to pick up whether the woman has any particular anxieties about the child from the physical point of view. How do you imagine your baby now? What do you think his/her temperament/ personality is like? The aim of these questions is to encourage the woman’s involvement with the infant as a person during pregnancy.
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