Sources of stress for parents of a sick neonate: A literature review

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Abstract
Attempting to understand how best to prepare parents psychologically for discharge from NICU, Angela Hopper considers the implications of the various sources of parental stress The birth of a baby is traditionally associated with emotional turmoil, but for parents of sick neonates it has been described as a stress-provoking event (Laubaby at home face enormous and Morse 1998). Parents often express feelings of disbelief, anger, guilt, irritability, anxiety, helplessness and isolation. Indeed, many parents grieve for the loss of a perfect child, or suffer anticipatory grief at the thought of their baby dying (Palmer 1995).

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