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Preparing for a New Life

Midwifery and Transactional Analysis

Pages 48-57
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The author describes how by introducing transactional analysis into her midwifery practice she significantly altered the way she represents her professional functions to prospective parents. The new positioning allows for a space of silence and a time for pause, which represents the time-space man and woman go through to become parents. As a midwife, she accompanies with patience and security the “fording” (Nasielski, 2012) of an old life to a new one. By integrating transactional analysis, her observations have become freer and more open, and she has discovered the link between the mother-baby symbiosis and the impasse that some women experience when they begin to connect their relationship to their baby within the new life of the couple. The author describes the kinds of information she provides to parents, which seeks to link directly the couple relationship with the permission to grow that is given to the baby. A training project for midwives on the same subject is presented.

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Maryse Dewarrat

Author Biography
Maryse Dewarrat, Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (counseling), is a member of the ITAA and EATA. She has a private counseling practice in Yverdon, Switzerland, for individuals and couples and a private practice as a midwife specializing in helping women and couples during pregnancy and after birth, from 2 days to about 2 months. Maryse can be reached at Rue de la Plaine 13, 1400 Yverdon, Switzerland; e-mail: . Web site: http://www.dewarratconseil.ch.