“we believe that the benefit you will get from knowing the status of your child, healthy or ill, is a real one, because it will allow you to project yourselves into this pregnancy. Something that you are having trouble doing.”
This form of benevolent directiveness shows the woman that her distress and needs have been taken seriously. By looking together at the available possibilities, the woman and the practitioner engage in pragmatic reflexivity and create the conditions for reaching a decision together.