Interview to Pregnant Women of An Advanced Age Concerning The Circumstances of Deciding Whether or Notto Undergo Amniocentesis

Abstract

This study will be performed to clarify the circumstances for pregnant women of an advanced age to decide whether or not they will undergo amniocentesis.
Semi-structured interviews wereconducted with 30 pregnant wornen of an advanced age.Theresult were as follows:
1.The major motivation for thinking amniocentesis were“to doctor'spresentation”“to have a good knowledge about amniocentesis”, “to have ahandicapped children”, “to have taken amniocentesis” and“to know the child of Down's syndrome”.
2.The women had positive or nagetive thoughts of the amniocentesis.
Positive thoughts: 1) To be happy for the new born child and family.
2) To make a contribution to fetuscare.
Negative thoughts: 1) To be meaningless it, because of there is scarcely the care
2) Tohavesideefectsandphysicalinlury.
3) To prevent to make the relation of mother and babyin the eary pregnancy.
3.The positive and/or negative of the amniosentesis were concernd of deciding whether or not undergo amniosentesis. And these results were same with the husband and the parents.Then the women who suffered were affected by the thoughts of their husband and parents.
4.The women who did not suffer were the motivations for thinking amniosentesis:
“to have a handicapped children”, “to know the child of Down's syndrome” and “to have taken amniocentesis”.