Many migrant mothers residing in Paris find themselves a situation marked by legal precarity, which causes them to be suspended between disparate possible futures for their families. This paper examines the case of one such mother. proposes notion “space hesitation” denote way precarity creates specific timespace like Um Ahmed they perform mothering. is at once juggling multiple, futures, and s...

Studies of mother-infant relationships in nonhuman primates have increasingly attempted to understand the neuroendocrine bases of interindividual variation in mothering styles and the mechanisms through which early exposure to variable mothering styles affects infant behavioral development. In this study of free-ranging rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico, we aimed to: 1) compare lact...

Motherhood can be argued to a central theme in many recent Spanish horror films. From El Orfanato/ The Orphanage or Los Otros/ Others to, more recently, Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi/ Witching and Bitching Musarañas/ Shrew’s Nest, mention but few, their narratives are based on the figure of (Good/Bad) mother. Their struggles choices mothering move action forward bring story, ultimately depicting t...

Background Becoming a mother is one of the most important life changing events that a woman experience. The birth of very-low-birth-weight preterm infants imposes many challenges for the mothers. There is insufficient information regarding the mothers' experiences on the process of becoming a mother when their preterm infants are in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). The aim of this study wa...