EVALUACIÓN DEL SISTEMA DE ASESORÍA Y APOYO A FAMILIAS CON BEBÉS MÚLTIPLES EN LA CIUDAD DE QUITO

Abstract

The present investigation is aimed at the orientation of parents who experience multiple pregnancies and births. Such orientation focuses on the organization demanded for everyday work with two or more babies that require assistance in their care and necessities. Currently, there is no psychoprophylactic program in Quito directed specifically for future families of multiple babies. Therefore, professional doctors were interviewed to know about the physical and emotional changes that the mother goes through from the pregnancy until the babies are born; as well as interviews to support groups in order to  learn the different experiences of multiple birth mothers and discuss issues that these mothers would have been willing to know before their babies were born. Chats and counseling meetings would be a good opportunity for parents of multiple pregnancies to share and discuss their concerns. Doctors, as well as parents, recommend that new families attend these chats to lower stress and relieve worries caused by these kinds of pregnancies.