Paths to Parenthood Emotions on the Journey through Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Early Parenting /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Kokanović, Renata (Editor), Michaels, Paula A. (Editor), Johnston-Ataata, Kate (Editor)
Summary:	XIII, 254 p. text
Language:	English
Published:	Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:	Social medicine. Sex. Sociology. Social groups. Anthropology. Medical Sociology. Gender Studies. Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0143-8
Format:	Electronic eBook

Table of 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.

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