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A compelling reason why a newborn’s intensive care can have a lasting effect on parents’ psychological well-being is that they re-experience this event in memory. Some of the participants in our study, including the mothers quoted next, volunteered that the distress ensuing from their memories even exceeded that which they had felt during theirr child’s hospitalization itself.
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Affleck, G., Tennen, H., Rowe, J. (1991). Mothers’ Remembrances of Newborn Intensive Care. In: Infants in Crisis. Disorders of Human Learning, Behavior, and Communication. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3050-2_8
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