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Pregnancy support pack: an antenatal resource for parents with learning disabilities or literacy problems
- Authors:
- NHS FIFE. Speech and Language Therapy Department, NHS FIFE. Clinical Psychology Department, (Producers)
- Publisher:
- NHS Fife
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- Kirkcaldy
This resource aims to support parents with learning disabilities and provides information relevant throughout pregnancy. The CD ROM contains a wide range of documents that can be viewed or printed. Documents are organised by the six stages of pregnancy, as well as including broader antennal and post natal resources.
Support for pregnant women
- Author:
- MARTIN Hemmie
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 7.3.02, 2002, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on the special needs of women with learning disabilities during pregnancy and childbirth.
Happy families
- Author:
- CAMPION Muki Jain
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 10(2), October 1997, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Effective support for new and prospective parents with learning difficulties should be there right from the start if they are to make a success of family life. Describes how a Maternity Alliance project is helping parents over those first crucial months.
Being a parent
- Author:
- WATTS Gaenor
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 98, Winter 2010, pp.7-9.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
Gaenor Watts of KeyRing Living Support Networks supported two couples through the birth of their daughters. In this article, parents Becky and Carl, and Graham and Gemma share their positive stories.
My pregnancy, my choice: a guide to pregnancy in pictures and easy words
- Author:
- CHANGE
- Publisher:
- Change
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 436p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This easy read publication uses pictures and easy words provide information to people with learning disabilities and people who find reading hard about pregnancy. It has been developed in cooperation with parents with learning disabilities and aims to help people make choices about their pregnancy. Coverage includes knowing you are pregnant, antenatal care and classes, how your baby develops, health, feelings and relationships, problems in pregnancy, labour and birth, and the first weeks after birth. A word bank which provides definitions of medical terminology is included
Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International
- Publisher:
- National Centre for Disabled Parents
Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International (DPPi), first published in 1993, aims to share information and experience on all aspects of parenting with a disability in the UK and overseas. The DPPi Journal is available online and in print, Braille and on audio-cassette. Disabled people may receive the journal free. The Journal aims to promote better awareness and support for disabled people during pregnancy and throughout prarenthood, highlights the concerns of disabled parents, stimulates debate and highlights relevant sources of information. DPPi is published quarterly.
Hidden voices of maternity: parents with learning disabilities speak out
- Authors:
- CHANGE, PATIENT EXPERIENCE NETWORK
- Publishers:
- Change, Parent Experience Network
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 28
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This research looks at how parents with learning disabilities experience their maternity care and provides recommendations for service improvements that could support care to be more person and family centred. The report draws on the results of an online survey of 107 professionals, five focus groups with parents with learning disabilities, an easy read accessible survey of parents with learning disabilities, and desk research. Focus groups used a 'ladder of power' to discuss how much power professionals had over them as parents. Social workers were viewed as being at the top of the ladder of power. Parents reported that community midwifery services, advocacy services, buddy schemes and support groups worked well to improve their experience of maternity care. Areas that had a negative impact on the maternity experiences of parents with learning disabilities were staff attitudes, conflicting information, fathers feeling unwelcome during the birth, and lack of support when babies are taken away. The report also includes examples from professional on what they felt was working well maternity services. Appendices includes a list of useful resources identified during the project. (Edited publisher abstract)
How do women with an intellectual disability experience the support of a Doula during their pregnancy, childbirth and after the birth of their child?
- Authors:
- McGARRY Alison, KROESE Biza Stenfert, COX Rachel
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 29(1), 2016, pp.21-33.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Background: The aim of this study was to gain insight into the experiences of parents with an intellectual disability who received support from Doulas during pregnancy, birth and following the birth of their child. In addition, the experiences of the Doulas who provided the support were investigated. Materials and Methods: Four women with an intellectual disability who received Doula support were interviewed before and after the birth of their child. Three Doulas were interviewed after the birth about their experiences of supporting women with an intellectual disability. Results: Interview transcripts were analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Themes were identified from each interview, before an overall analysis of themes from each support phase was undertaken. Conclusions: Pre-natally, the Doula was considered helpful and a reliable source of information about pregnancy. Each mother perceived Doula support as a means of keeping her child in her care. Post-natally, mothers described a trusting relationship with their Doula, who enabled them to make informed choices. Doulas described how they adapted their work to meet the needs of parents with intellectual disability. Being involved in Child Protection procedures was perceived as stressful and challenging. (Edited publisher abstract)
Parenting toolkit
- Author:
- LONDON NETWORK OF PARENTS WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES
- Publisher:
- Supporting parents in London
The London Network of Parents with Learning Difficulties has written this Toolkit for Partnership Boards in London. The online resource includes support maps, members stories, news and resources. It aims to help services meet the needs of parents with learning difficulties.
Vicky, Lissi and Si: the story
- Author:
- FRIENDLY RESOURCE COMPANY
- Publisher:
- Friendly Resource Company
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 43p., ill.
- Place of publication:
- Rotherham
This easy reading booklet is about positive parenting. It describes the true story of Vicky, who is pregnant. Vicky has mild learning disabilities and knows that Social Services sometimes take children away from people like her. However, Vicky is determined to keep her baby and prove to everyone that she can be a really good mum. This booklet outlines the dilemmas of Vicky’s pregnancy, through to the birth of her daughter Lissie. It is designed as a resource for people with learning disabilities and for the people who support them, and targets social workers and health care professionals such as midwives. It describes how Lissie is now at school and enjoying family life with mum. The booklet is intended to show the positive aspects of pregnancy for individuals with learning disabilities. It shows how Vicky has proved to everyone that, with the right support and self determination, people with learning disabilities can be good parents.