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Paths to Parenthood: Emotions on the Journey Through Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Early Parenting

Paths to Parenthood: Emotions on the Journey Through Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Early Parenting

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Public HealthGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9811301425
ISBN13: 9789811301421
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 14 2018
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Acknowledgments.- Chapter 1: The complex and contradictory emotional paths to parenthood.- Part I: Journeys into pregnancy and childbirth.- Chapter 2: Postnatural families: Refiguring intimacy through assisted reproduction.- Chapter 3: Embodying pregnancy and self-surveillance.- Chapter 4: Pain and suffering in labour and birth.- Part II: Journeys into early parenthood.- Chapter 5: Same-sex attracted parents' emotional transitions to parenthood.- Chapter 6: The turbulent emotions of early parenthood.- Chapter 7: 'What have I done?': An exploration of the ambivalent, unimaginable emotions of new motherhood.- Chapter 8: Narrating and disrupting postnatal depression.- Chapter 9: 'One of the most vulnerable times in your life': Expectations and emotional experiences of support in the early postnatal period.- Chapter 10: Labour after labour: Negotiating caring for children and paid work.- Appendix 1: Emotional Experiences of Early Parenthood in Australian Families Project: Participant demographic characteristics.- Index.

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