Authors' reply to: Letter to the Editor in response to 'Parental attachment and depressive symptoms in pregnancies complicated by twin-twin transfusion syndrome: a cohort study'

Fiona L Mackie; R Katie Morris; Mark D Kilby

doi:10.1186/s12884-021-03687-8

Authors' reply to: Letter to the Editor in response to 'Parental attachment and depressive symptoms in pregnancies complicated by twin-twin transfusion syndrome: a cohort study'

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2021 Mar 22;21(1):241. doi: 10.1186/s12884-021-03687-8.

Authors

Fiona L Mackie¹, R Katie Morris^{2

3}, Mark D Kilby^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust, Royal Worcestershire Hospital, Charles Hastings Way, WR5 1DD, Worcester, UK. fionamackie@doctors.org.uk.
² Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, West Midlands, Edgbaston, UK.
³ Fetal Medicine Centre, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Women's Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, UK.
⁴ Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁵ Centre for Women's and Children's Health, Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham, UK.

Abstract

In this correspondence we thank the authors for highlighting the importance of our work, and agree with the limitations they have raised regarding performing this study.

Keywords: Anxiety; Fetoscopic laser ablation; Mental health; Parental attachment; Twin twin transfusion syndrome.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Cohort Studies
Depression
Female
Fetofetal Transfusion* / surgery
Fetoscopy
Humans
Parents
Pregnancy