By Linda Fortini, Laura Mori
It is a research of an excellent staff of sextuplets who have been saw at domestic on a per thirty days foundation, for two-hour visits over a three-year interval, via Linda Fortini, a psychologist who lives and works in Florence, Italy.
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The interior resources of the young parental couple appear more fragile than those of the grandparents as a couple; the latter appear better able to function emotionally at an introjective level. 6 The first differences As long as the six babies could all be considered as having pretty much the same needs and could be treated as a homogeneous nestling-group, without individual behavioural problems or special needs, the adult caretakers were able to manage them fairly easily as a group, through rapid, targeted actions involving them all in a global, panoramic sense.
He is at ease with the children and willing to be involved, less disturbed by the children’s tantrums and knows how to stop their misbehaviour. He is comfortable with the children as a group. The mother, instead, intervenes in a different way: she tries to distract the children, to offer a substitute in consolation, and even plays the role of a group animator, organizing recreational activities to keep them occupied and out of trouble’s way. The mother is seated on the floor with the children all around her … .
The 17th-week ultrasound showed four or six heads, a single placenta and six choria. This news left her totally disoriented: she was practically paralysed and wordless, and felt that she lacked points of reference, terrorized as she was by the idea of a very difficult pregnancy. She recounts that at the time she was advised to get psychiatric help. The prospect of a multiple birth with so many babies, a most exceptional event, was unthinkable: such things belong to the animal world rather than the human one.