Clinics in Mother and Child Health

Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, Hospital of Jesi, Italy

Biography

Dr. Maria Teresa Gaetti is the Professor in Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology. Hospital of Jesi, Italy. Author has overseen multiple clinical research projects in field of Pediatrics and Neonatology.

Publications

• Review   
  The Experience of a Mother in the Situation of a Preterm Birth
  Author(s): Francesca Rosati*, Enrico Gasparrini and Maria Teresa Gaetti
  
  It is a work that explores the world that is created in a family, for the mother in particular, when, instead of the expected natural childbirth, the preterm birth of a child takes place. An event that is often experienced as disappointing and dramatic. This maternal experience, in most cases, is configured as a period of crisis, limited in time, characterized by a certain mental and behavioral imbalance. Faced with a birth of a premature child, the woman mostly becomes a fragile mother, disoriented and particularly vulnerable, dominated by anxiety of death and feelings of guilt. A great contribution to the overcoming of this agonizing and painful experience of the woman, who gives birth to a child before the end of the gestational age, is given by the humanization processes that are applied in the Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Units, which, beyond the stab.. View more»
  

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