Davis and Stein - Pregnancy Infancy Crisis
If a crisis occurs during your pregnancy or your baby's infancy -- pregnancy complications, postpartum depression, prenatal or postnatal diagnosis of problems with the baby, premature delivery, hospitalization, life-and-death medical decision-making, pregnancy loss, infant death -- your emotions can be intense and overwhelming. No crisis is too big or too small, because crisis encompasses loss and grief at a time when you expected only joy. Every question is welcome, because your experience counts. Here is where you can find reassurance that your reactions are normal and you are not alone. Here is where you can find emotional support and information that can help illuminate your journey. Our "Childbearing Complications Experts" will answer your questions and offer comforting guidance on how to move through your painful emotions and toward healing.
- Another Pregnancy After a Baby Dies
- Anxiety Early in Subsequent Pregnancies
- Coping With Separation From Your Baby
- Depression During Pregnancy
- Difficult Decision-Making in the NICU
- Ectopic and Infertility
- Finding a High-Risk Obstetrician
- How to Be a NICU Mom
- Meeting the Challenges of Breast-Feeding in the NICU
- Prenatal Diagnostic Testing Anxiety
- Psychiatric Medication during Pregnancy
- Pumping Breast Milk for Your Hospitalized Baby
- Recurring Miscarriages & Subsequent Pregnancy Worry
- Relinquishing a Baby for Adoption
- Risk of Recurrence Meckel-Gruber Syndrome
- Serving the Best Interests of Your Child
- Support Groups and Timing Another Pregnancy
- Timing Subsequent Pregnancies
- Vulnerability and Preemie Parenthood
- Worrisome Prenatal Diagnostic Testing Results
Davis and Stein
Deborah L. Davis, Ph.D. and Mara Tesler Stein, Psy.D. are the authors of Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child: The Emotional Journey, a 2004 National Parenting Publications Awards "Gold Award" winner. They also collaborated on Parent: You and Your Baby in the NICU (2002), as part of the nationwide March of Dimes NICU Project. They.ve been invited to regularly contribute to Advances in Neonatal Care, a neonatal nursing journal; their first article appears in Spring 2005. They are the founding members of Partners in Perinatal and Pediatric Consulting, which promotes developmentally supportive care for babies and parents, as well as collaboration between families and health care professionals.
Dr. Stein is a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in the emotional aspects of coping with crisis and adjustment around pregnancy and parenting. She is regularly invited to lecture and give workshops on these issues throughout the country to conferences of physician and nursing groups, doulas, and lactation consultants. Since 1997, she has been consulting with organizations and providing training to health care providers, guiding their efforts to improve the level of psychological support and developmentally supportive care to families during and subsequent to perinatal crisis.
Dr. Davis is a developmental psychologist, researcher, and writer who specializes in perinatal and neonatal crisis, medical ethics, parental bereavement, parent education, and child development. Dr. Davis is the author of four books for bereaved parents, Empty Cradle, Broken Heart (Fulcrum, 1991; 1996), Loving and Letting Go (Centering, 1993; 2002), Fly Away Home (Centering, 2000) and Stillbirth, Yet Still Born (PILC, 2000). She is also on the Board of the Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance (PLIDA.org) and is regularly invited to write articles for professional periodicals and parent support materials.
