Other investigators report
higher levels of parenting stress among primiparous ART
mothers of multiple infants than in comparison groups, in particular
because care has to be withheld from one baby in service of
another (Garel and Blondel, 1992; Colpin et al., 1999; Baor
et al., 2004; Glazebrook et al., 2004). Sheard et al. (2007) found
that mothers of 6-week-old ART multiples were more likely
than mothers of ART singletons to describe ‘tiredness’, ‘feelings
of stress/depression’ and ‘questioning [of] parenthood’ while
the latter were more likely to be ‘feeling wonderful’ than the
former.