OBJECTIVE to extend the knowledge on Muslim women's approach of antenatal anomaly screening. DESIGN qualitative interview study with pregnant Muslim women from Moroccan origin. SETTING one midwifery practice in a medium-sized city near Amsterdam participated in the study. PARTICIPANTS twelve pregnant Muslim women who live in a high density immigrant area and who attended primary midwives ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to examine in depth the individual experience of transition from pregnancy to motherhood, among women with current eating disorders (EDs), focusing on differences between the first and subsequent pregnancies. DESIGN AND METHODS We analysed the narratives of 12 women with severe ED during pregnancy using interpretative phenomenological analysis. We employed...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To gain a unique perspective of young women with cancer aged 20-39 years who are experiencing challenges with fertility and parenting through analysis of cancer blogs.
. RESEARCH APPROACH A secondary analysis of online narratives using a focused thematic analysis approach, comparing women who were mothers prior to diagnosis with women who are exploring the possibility of mo...

Motherhood is a physiological status in which certain behavioural patterns are exhibited. Maintenance of the life of the species in mammals is dependent upon the presentation of motherhood services in a certain period that the child is dependent on the mother. Absence of the mother causes some deficiencies in social, behavioural and cognitive abilities, an abnormal development of the stress res...

Among all motivations of women motherhood is the most universal and the strongest. Motherhood is a beautiful and joyous experience to a woman. The feeling of a life growing inside makes her ecstatic. The health of the mother during pregnancy is important to give birth to a healthy baby. Reproductive tract infections are common during pregnancy and vaginal candidiasis (moniliasis or thrush) is a...

Adolescent childbearing has undesirable consequences. Dropping out of school, high rates of abortion, maternal mortality and morbidity are noted consequences of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing. The objective of this study, which is based on the 2005 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey data, is to analyze the levels, trends and differentials of adolescent motherhood in Ethiopia. A mult...

Motherhood is a social reality; the very intuition existed in society since time immemorial. It associated with women’s reproductivity and their socio-cultural life. determines woman’s status identity family outer world. This paper attempts to understand motherhood as both concept institution by locating how being constructed reality. Further, it discusses feminists respond idea of motherhood. ...

The objective of this study is to describe the understanding that sheltered female adolescents have regarding motherhood and analyze their experience of this process from their perspective, for the purpose of identifying a support structure for young sheltered mothers. This exploratory and qualitative study was performed at two municipal shelters in Rio de Janeiro. The data were collected throu...

Delayed First Birth and New Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Biological Fertility Shocks We investigate the impact of delaying the first birth on Italian mothers’ labor market outcomes around childbirth. The effect of postponing motherhood is identified using biological fertility shocks, namely the occurrence of miscarriages and stillbirths. Focusing on mothers’ behavior around fir...