Paths to parenthood : emotions on the journey through pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting /: emotions on the journey through pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Renata Kokanovic, Paula A. Michaels.
• Editors: Kokanovic, Renata; Michaels, Paula A
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 155.6463; Parenthood; Parenthood -- Social aspects; Motherhood; Motherhood -- Social aspects; Pregnancy; Pregnancy -- Social aspects; Emotions; Emotions -- Sociological aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811301438
• Related ISBNs: 9789811301421
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