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Parents of premature babies face a further trauma - PTSD [BBC News]

Karen Clemmer ·
BBC News July 28, 2018 Suzanne Ruart's son Aiden spent three months in a neonatal unit as a result of being born three months early. A year after her son came home Suzanne realised she'd been suppressing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). "After the first time I saw him resuscitated I developed a crippling anxiety that every time I walked into the neonatal unit there would be bad news, and this anxiety has never really left me since. "I manage it now because I talk a lot...
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