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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kokanović, Renata (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Michaels, Paula A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Johnston-Ataata, Kate (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Social medicine.; Sociology.; Families.; Families-Social aspects.; Social groups.; Family.; Anthropology.; Medical Sociology.; Gender Studies.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

This interdisciplinary book explores the affective dimensions of becoming a parent, traversing the life-cycle journey of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting. Bringing together researchers from sociology, history, feminist studies, cultural studies, general medicine, and psychiatry, Paths to P...

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.